Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 72
Such a clipping and alteration of the authorities would have seemed sacrilege to earlier bards.
Who acts: clipping · What happens: have, seem, alter · To what, where: sacrilege, authorities
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 (clipping), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 clipping | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clipping | det |
| 3 | clipping | clipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 alteration | cc |
| 5 | alteration | alteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clipping | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 authorities | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 authorities | det |
| 8 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 alteration | nmod |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clipping | acl:relcl |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | sacrilege | sacrilege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bards | case |
| 14 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 bards | amod |
| 15 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seemed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | such clipping and alteration of the authorities not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | such clipping and alteration of the authorities | sacrilege | to earlier bards | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sacrilege=Attribute | |||
| 3 | alter | the authorities | nom alteration «event 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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