Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 26
To the magnanimity of his own heroes he could not attain:--
Who acts: MacPherson · What happens: not attain
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 (MacPherson), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 magnanimity | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magnanimity | det |
| 3 | magnanimity | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attain | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heroes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heroes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heroes | amod |
| 7 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 magnanimity | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 attain | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 attain | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 attain | advmod |
| 11 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 attain | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 attain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attain | could | MacPherson | to the magnanimity of MacPherson's own heroes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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