Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 37
Can we believe that forestine luxuriance not to have overgrown all highways, that flood of superabundant song not have submerged all landmarks?
Who acts: we, superabundant song · What happens: believe, not overgrow, not submerge, flood · To what, where: forestine luxuriance, landmarks · 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 (we, superabundant song), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 overgrown | mark |
| 5 | forestine | forestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 luxuriance | compound |
| 6 | luxuriance | luxuriance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overgrown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 overgrown | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 overgrown | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 overgrown | aux |
| 10 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 highways | det |
| 12 | highways | highway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 overgrown | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flood | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 flood | det |
| 15 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 highways | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 song | case |
| 17 | superabundant | superabundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 song | amod |
| 18 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flood | nmod |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 submerged | advmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 submerged | aux |
| 21 | submerged | submerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 song | acl:relcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 landmarks | det |
| 23 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 submerged | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | we | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not overgrow | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | forestine luxuriance | all highways obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not submerge | infinitive · perfect | superabundant song not said here | all landmarks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent landmark=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flood | superabundant song | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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