Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 47
They were not so much a class as an organisation and fraternity acknowledging the authority of one elected chief.
Who acts: bard, fraternity · What happens: not be, acknowledge, elect · To what, where: class, authority
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 (bard, fraternity), 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 | 7 class | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 class | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 class | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 class | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 class | det |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 organisation | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 organisation | det |
| 10 | organisation | organisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 class | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fraternity | cc |
| 12 | fraternity | fraternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 organisation | conj |
| 13 | acknowledging | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 fraternity | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 authority | det |
| 15 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 acknowledging | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 chief | nummod |
| 18 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 chief | amod |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 authority | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 class | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | bard | a class | as a organisation and fraternity | tree rules | |||
| 2 | acknowledge | gerund | fraternity not said here | the authority of one elected chief | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Topic | ||||
| 3 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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