Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 3
The following ancient rann contains the four qualifications of a bard:--
Who acts: ancient rann · What happens: follow, contain · To what, where: four qualifications
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 (ancient rann), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rann | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rann | case |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rann | amod |
| 4 | rann | rann | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contains | nsubj |
| 5 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 qualifications | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 qualifications | nummod |
| 8 | qualifications | qualification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 contains | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bard | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bard | det |
| 11 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 qualifications | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 contains | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 contains | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | contain | present | the ancient rann | the four qualifications of a bard | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot qualification=Theme |
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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