Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 11
It was the same, the bard simply states, that was once a yew tree, flourishing fifty summers in the woods of Ioroway.
Who acts: youth, bard, that, yew tree · What happens: be, state, flourish · To what, where: yew tree, woods · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, bard, that, yew tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 same | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 states | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bard | det |
| 7 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 states | nsubj |
| 8 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 9 states | advmod |
| 9 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tree | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 tree | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tree | cop |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 tree | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | yew | yew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 states | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flourishing | punct |
| 18 | flourishing | flourish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 tree | acl |
| 19 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 summers | nummod |
| 20 | summers | summer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flourishing | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 woods | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woods | det |
| 23 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flourishing | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Ioroway | case |
| 25 | Ioroway | Ioroway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 woods | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | youth | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | the bard | simply property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | a yew tree | once property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | flourish | gerund | a yew tree not said here | the woods of Ioroway | summer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
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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