Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 30
They still remain demanding adequate treatment, when we arrive at the age of Conn [Note: See page 20.], Art, and Cormac, kings of Tara in the second and third centuries of the Christian era.
Who acts: wars, we · What happens: remain, demand, arrive, see · To what, where: adequate treatment, age, page
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 (wars, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remain | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 remain | advmod |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | demanding | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 remain | xcomp |
| 5 | adequate | adequate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 treatment | amod |
| 6 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 demanding | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrive | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 arrive | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 arrive | nsubj |
| 10 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 age | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 age | det |
| 13 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrive | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Conn | case |
| 15 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 age | nmod |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Note | punct |
| 17 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Conn | appos |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 See | punct |
| 19 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 Note | appos |
| 20 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 See | obj |
| 21 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 page | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Note | punct |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 Note | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Art | punct |
| 25 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Conn | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kings | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kings | cc |
| 28 | Cormac | Cormac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 kings | compound |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kings | punct |
| 30 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remain | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Tara | case |
| 32 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 kings | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 centuries | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 centuries | det |
| 35 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 centuries | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 third | cc |
| 37 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 second | conj |
| 38 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 kings | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 era | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 era | det |
| 41 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 era | amod |
| 42 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 centuries | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | wars = war | still | Cormac kings of Tara in the second centuries of the Christian era parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | demand speech: request | gerund | wars = war not said here | adequate treatment | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | arrive | present | we | at the age of Conn and Art | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | page | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer page=Stimulus |
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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