Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 53
Let us hear him upon this subject, admittedly of European importance.
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, hear · To what, where: us, Carlyle
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 (you, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 subject | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 subject | det |
| 7 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 importance | punct |
| 9 | admittedly | admittedly | ADV | _ | 12 importance | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 importance | case |
| 11 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 importance | amod |
| 12 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | of European importance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | infinitive | us not said here | Carlyle | upon this subject | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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