Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 52
Mr. Carlyle is the first man of letters of the day, his the highest name as a critic upon, and historian of, the past life of Europe.
Who acts: Carlyle · What happens: be, letter, name · To what, where: first man, day
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 (Carlyle), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Carlyle | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Carlyle | Carlyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 letters | case |
| 8 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 man | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letters | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 name | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 15 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 name | amod |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 critic | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 critic | det |
| 19 | critic | critic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nmod |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 critic | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 historian | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 historian | cc |
| 23 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 historian | case |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 life | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 life | det |
| 27 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 life | amod |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Europe | case |
| 30 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 life | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Carlyle Mr. | the first man and Carlyle's highest name as a critic and historian and the past life of Europe | of letters of the day; Carlyle's highest name as a critic conj; historian conj; the past life of Europe conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | letter | the day | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | name | Carlyle | as a critic | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
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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