Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 62
But unless the student has read the whole of the Ultonian cycle, he should be cautious in condemning a departure in my work from any particular version of an event which he may have himself met.
Who acts: student, event, my · What happens: read, be, condemn, have, meet, work · To what, where: student, departure, work
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 (student, event, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 cautious | cc |
| 2 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 student | det |
| 4 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 read | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | aux |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cautious | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whole | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 read | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cycle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cycle | det |
| 11 | Ultonian | Ultonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cycle | compound |
| 12 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whole | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cautious | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cautious | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cautious | cop |
| 17 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 condemning | mark |
| 19 | condemning | condemn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 cautious | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 departure | det |
| 21 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 condemning | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 work | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 work | nmod:poss |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 condemning | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 version | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 version | det |
| 27 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 version | amod |
| 28 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 condemning | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 event | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 event | det |
| 31 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 version | nmod |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 have | nsubj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 event | acl:relcl |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 have | obj |
| 37 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 have | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cautious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | the student | whole property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | should | student | cautious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | condemn | gerund | student not said here | a departure | my work | from any particular version of a event | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme | ||
| 4 | have | may | a event | student | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | meet | participle | student not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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