Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 45
For it must be remembered, that the bardic literature of Ireland was committed to the custody of guardians whose character we ought not to forget.
Who acts: we · What happens: remember, commit, not forget · To what, where: imagination, bardic literature, custody
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), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 remembered | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remembered | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remembered | aux:pass |
| 5 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 committed | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 committed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 literature | det |
| 9 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 literature | amod |
| 10 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 committed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ireland | case |
| 12 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 literature | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 committed | aux:pass |
| 14 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 remembered | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 custody | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 custody | det |
| 17 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 committed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 guardians | case |
| 19 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 custody | nmod |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 character | nmod:poss |
| 21 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guardians | appos |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 forget | nsubj |
| 23 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 forget | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 forget | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 forget | mark |
| 26 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 character | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | must · passive | imagination | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | commit | past · passive | the bardic literature of Ireland | the custody of guardians | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to custody=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not forget | ought | we | tree rules |
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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