Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 80
In which of these three forms of metre the Ode to the spring-time is written I know not.
Who acts: I · What happens: write, not know, form · To what, where: three forms, metre
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 forms | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forms | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 forms | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 forms | nummod |
| 6 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 written | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 metre | case |
| 8 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forms | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ode | det |
| 10 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 written | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 spring | punct |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Ode | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 written | aux:pass |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 written | parataxis |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · passive | this three forms of metre | the Ode to the spring time nsubj:pass | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | form | metre | nom form «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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