Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 74
I will also request the reader, when the two volumes may diverge in tone or statement, to attach greater importance to the second, as the result of wider and more careful reading and more matured reflection.
Who acts: I, two volumes · What happens: request, diverge, attach, mature · To what, where: reader, tone, greater importance
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 (I, two volumes), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 request | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 request | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 request | advmod |
| 4 | request | request | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reader | det |
| 6 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 request | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 diverge | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 diverge | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 volumes | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 volumes | nummod |
| 11 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 diverge | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 diverge | aux |
| 13 | diverge | diverge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 request | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tone | case |
| 15 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 diverge | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 statement | cc |
| 17 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tone | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attach | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 attach | mark |
| 20 | attach | attach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 diverge | conj |
| 21 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 importance | amod |
| 22 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attach | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 second | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 second | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 attach | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 result | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 result | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 result | det |
| 29 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attach | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wider | case |
| 31 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 reading | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 careful | cc |
| 33 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 careful | advmod |
| 34 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wider | conj |
| 35 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 result | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 reflection | cc |
| 37 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 matured | advmod |
| 38 | matured | mature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 reflection | amod |
| 39 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 reading | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 request | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | future | I | the reader | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | diverge | may | the two volumes | tone or statement | vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | attach | to-infinitive | the two volumes not said here | greater importance | to the second; the result wider reading and matured reflection parataxis | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent importance=Patient to second=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | mature | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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