Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 3
An Irishman can no more release himself from his history than he can absolve himself from social and domestic duties.
Who acts: Haman · What happens: absolve · To what, where: Haman, social duties, more release
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Haman), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Irishman | det |
| 2 | Irishman | irishman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 release | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 release | aux |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 release | amod |
| 6 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 release | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 history | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 history | nmod:poss |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 release | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 absolve | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 absolve | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 absolve | aux |
| 14 | absolve | absolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 release | acl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 absolve | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 duties | case |
| 17 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 duties | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 domestic | cc |
| 19 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 social | conj |
| 20 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 absolve | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 release | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absolve | can | Haman | Haman | social duties | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source |
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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