Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 13
What meant this yew tree and the hound?
What happens: mean · To what, where: yew tree
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | yew | yew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meant | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hound | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hound | det |
| 8 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | this yew tree and the hound | What nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |
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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