Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 34
That independence and originality of thought, which caused Milton to despise the poets of the Restoration, are impossible in the simple stages of civilisation.
Who acts: thought, Milton, independence · What happens: cause, despise, be · To what, where: Milton, poets, simple stages
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 (thought, Milton, independence), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 independence | det |
| 2 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 impossible | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 originality | cc |
| 4 | originality | originality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 independence | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 originality | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Milton | Milton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 despise | mark |
| 12 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 caused | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 poets | det |
| 14 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 despise | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Restoration | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Restoration | det |
| 17 | Restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poets | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 independence | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 impossible | cop |
| 20 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 stages | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stages | det |
| 23 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stages | amod |
| 24 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 impossible | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 civilisation | case |
| 26 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stages | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | thought | Milton | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | despise | to-infinitive | Milton not said here | the poets of the Restoration | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poet=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that independence and originality of thought | the simple stages of civilisation | impossible property | tree rules |
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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