Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 48
They were not loose wanderers, but a power in the State, having duties and privileges.
Who acts: bard, loose wanderers · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: loose wanderers, duties
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, loose wanderers), 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 | 5 wanderers | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wanderers | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wanderers | advmod |
| 4 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wanderers | amod |
| 5 | wanderers | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 power | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 power | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanderers | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 State | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 State | det |
| 12 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 power | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 having | punct |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wanderers | acl:relcl |
| 15 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 having | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 privileges | cc |
| 17 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 duties | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanderers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | bard | loose wanderers but a power in the State | a power in the State conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | loose wanderers but a power in the State not said here | duties and privileges | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Patient |
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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