Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 57
To see the Swabian enter in, crowned, to a flourish of somewhat barbarous music, was indeed bad enough, but Mr. MacPherson!
Who acts: Swabian · What happens: see, enter in, crown, be, flourish · To what, where: barbarous music · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Swabian), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 see | mark |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bad | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Swabian | det |
| 4 | Swabian | Swabian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 enter | nsubj |
| 5 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 enter | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crowned | punct |
| 8 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 see | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flourish | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 flourish | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flourish | det |
| 12 | flourish | flourish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crowned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 music | case |
| 14 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 15 barbarous | advmod |
| 15 | barbarous | barbarous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 music | amod |
| 16 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flourish | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bad | cop |
| 19 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 20 bad | advmod |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 bad | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 MacPherson | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 MacPherson | cc |
| 24 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 MacPherson | nmod:desc |
| 25 | MacPherson | MacPherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bad | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | enter in | present | the Swabian | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crown | participle | to a flourish of barbarous music | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to flourish=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is | past | MacPherson Mr. obl; bad, enough, indeed property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | flourish | barbarous music | nom flourish «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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