Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 6
Some of the books, according to the author, stated that on this occasion the two latter behaved unfairly, but he agreed with those books which did not state this.
Who acts: books, Bricrind · What happens: accord, state, behave, agree, not state · To what, where: two latter, occasion, this
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 (books, Bricrind), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 books | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 books | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 books | det |
| 4 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stated | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 author | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 author | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 author | det |
| 9 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 books | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 books | punct |
| 11 | stated | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 occasion | mark |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 occasion | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 occasion | det |
| 15 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stated | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 latter | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 latter | nummod |
| 18 | latter | latter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 occasion | nmod |
| 19 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 latter | acl |
| 20 | unfairly | unfairly | ADV | _ | 19 behaved | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 agreed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 agreed | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 agreed | nsubj |
| 24 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 occasion | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 books | case |
| 26 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 books | det |
| 27 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 agreed | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 state | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 state | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 state | advmod |
| 31 | state | state | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 books | acl:relcl |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 state | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | past | some books and the author | this occasion the two latter ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | behave | participle | the two latter not said here | unfairly property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | Bricrind | this occasion the two latter not said here | with that books | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent occasion=Topic | |||
| 5 | not state speech: other | past · do-support | that books | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
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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