Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 38
Be the cause what it may, the fact remains that they did not.
Who acts: cause, facts · What happens: be, remain, not do · To what, where: cause
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 (cause, facts), 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 | Be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cause | det |
| 3 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Be | nsubj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 remains | obj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remains | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 remains | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remains | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fact | det |
| 9 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remains | nsubj |
| 10 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cause | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remains | advcl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 did | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | the cause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | may | cause | the cause | the fact nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not do | past | facts = fact | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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