Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 2
Strange to say, too, they inculcated chastity (see p. 257; vol. i.), an allusion taken from the "youthful adventures of Cuculain," Leabhar na Huidhre.
Who acts: bard · What happens: say, inculcate, see, take, adventure · To what, where: chastity, p., allusion, youthful adventures, Cuculain · 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 (bard), 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 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 say | mark |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 say | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 inculcated | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 inculcated | nsubj |
| 8 | inculcated | inculcate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | advcl |
| 9 | chastity | chastity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inculcated | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 inculcated | conj |
| 12 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | 257 | 257 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 p. | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 vol. | punct |
| 15 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | parataxis |
| 16 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 vol. | flat:foreign |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 i. | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allusion | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 allusion | det |
| 20 | allusion | allusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vol. | conj |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 allusion | acl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 adventures | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 adventures | det |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 adventures | punct |
| 25 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 adventures | amod |
| 26 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 taken | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Cuculain | case |
| 28 | Cuculain | Cuculain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 adventures | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Leabhar | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Leabhar | punct |
| 31 | Leabhar | Leabhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 adventures | nmod |
| 32 | na | na | ADV | Typo=Yes | 31 Leabhar | flat:foreign |
| 33 | Huidhre | Huidhre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 na | goeswith |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vol. and a allusion parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | inculcate | past | bard | chastity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | bard not said here | p. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer p.=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | participle | a allusion not said here | the youthful adventures of Cuculain Leabhar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from adventure=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | adventure in a quote | Cuculain | nom adventure «act 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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