Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 59
Of the literary value of the bardic literature I fear to write at all, lest I should not know how to make an end.
Who acts: I · What happens: fear, write, not know, make, value · To what, where: all, end, bardic literature · 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 (I), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 value | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 value | det |
| 3 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 value | amod |
| 4 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fear | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 literature | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 literature | det |
| 7 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 literature | amod |
| 8 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 value | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fear | nsubj |
| 10 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 write | mark |
| 12 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fear | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 write | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 write | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 make | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 know | ccomp |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | of the literary value of the bardic literature | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | write | to-infinitive | I not said here | all | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know | should | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a end | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product | |||||
| 5 | value | the bardic literature | nom value «cognition 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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