Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 8
Without study he will be pronounced sober and rational before the critic opens the book.
Who acts: critic · What happens: pronounce, open · To what, where: writer, book
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 (critic), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 study | case |
| 2 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pronounced | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pronounced | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pronounced | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 6 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | sober | sober | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pronounced | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rational | cc |
| 9 | rational | rational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sober | conj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 opens | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 critic | det |
| 12 | critic | critic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opens | nsubj |
| 13 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pronounced | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opens | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | future · passive | writer | without study; sober property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | open | present | the critic | the book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme |
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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