Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 42
It is not imaginative strength that produces confusion, but imaginative weakness.
Who acts: confusion, imaginative strength · What happens: not be, produce · To what, where: imaginative strength, confusion
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 (confusion, imaginative strength), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 strength | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strength | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 strength | advmod |
| 4 | imaginative | imaginative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strength | amod |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 produces | nsubj |
| 7 | produces | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strength | acl:relcl |
| 8 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 produces | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weakness | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 weakness | cc |
| 11 | imaginative | imaginative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 weakness | amod |
| 12 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strength | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strength | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | confusion | imaginative strength but imaginative weakness | imaginative weakness conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | produce | present | imaginative strength but imaginative weakness | confusion | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confusion=Result |
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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