Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 85
Indeed, without reading all or many, we will not understand the superficial meaning of even one.
Who acts: we · What happens: read, not understand · To what, where: all, superficial meaning
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 (we), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 understand | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 reading | mark |
| 4 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 understand | advcl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 reading | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 many | cc |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 all | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reading | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 understand | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 understand | advmod |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meaning | det |
| 14 | superficial | superficial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meaning | amod |
| 15 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 understand | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 meaning | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | we not said here | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not understand | future | we | the superficial meaning of one | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus |
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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