Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 35
The scribe who appended this very interesting comment to the subject of his own handiwork must have been removed by centuries from the date of its compilation.
Who acts: scribe, date · What happens: append, remove, compile · To what, where: interesting comment, scribe, date
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 (scribe, date), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scribe | det |
| 2 | scribe | scribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 appended | nsubj |
| 4 | appended | append | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 scribe | acl:relcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 comment | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 interesting | advmod |
| 7 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 comment | amod |
| 8 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appended | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 subject | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 subject | det |
| 11 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appended | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 handiwork | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 handiwork | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 handiwork | amod |
| 15 | handiwork | handiwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 subject | nmod |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 removed | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 removed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 removed | aux:pass |
| 19 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 centuries | case |
| 21 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 removed | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 date | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 date | det |
| 24 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 removed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 compilation | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 compilation | nmod:poss |
| 27 | compilation | compilation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 date | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | append | past | the scribe | this interesting comment | to the subject of subject's own handiwork | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remove | must · perfect · passive | the scribe | the date of date's compilation | century | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from date=Source | |||
| 3 | compile | date | nom compilation «communication transitive»: 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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