Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 57
The reader of these volumes can make such deductions as he pleases, on this account, from the bardic history of the Red Branch, and clip the wings of the tale, so that it may with him travel pedestrian.
Who acts: reader · What happens: make, please, travel · To what, where: such deductions, account, pedestrian
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reader | det |
| 2 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 volumes | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 volumes | det |
| 5 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reader | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deductions | amod |
| 9 | deductions | deduction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 pleases | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleases | nsubj |
| 12 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 account | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 account | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 account | det |
| 16 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleases | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 history | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 history | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 history | det |
| 20 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 history | amod |
| 21 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleases | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Branch | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Branch | det |
| 24 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Branch | flat |
| 25 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 history | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 clip | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 clip | cc |
| 28 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wings | det |
| 30 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 clip | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 tale | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tale | det |
| 33 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wings | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 travel | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 may | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 so | fixed |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 may | nsubj |
| 38 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 travel | advcl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 may | obl |
| 41 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | parataxis |
| 42 | pedestrian | pedestrian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 travel | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | the reader of this volumes | such deductions | clip the wings of the tale parataxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deduction=Product | |||
| 2 | please | present | reader | this account | from the bardic history of the Red Branch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | travel | present | pedestrian | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pedestrian=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Project Gutenberg book 8109 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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