Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 51
But the question arises, Did they so repress such perversions of history as their wandering undisciplined members might commit?
Who acts: question, aberrations, undisciplined members · What happens: arise, repress, wonder, commit · To what, where: such perversions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (question, aberrations, undisciplined members), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 arises | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arises | nsubj |
| 4 | arises | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repress | punct |
| 6 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 repress | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 repress | nsubj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 repress | advmod |
| 9 | repress | repress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 arises | conj |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 perversions | amod |
| 11 | perversions | perversion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 repress | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 history | case |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perversions | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 wandering | mark |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wandering | nsubj |
| 16 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 repress | advcl |
| 17 | undisciplined | undisciplined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 members | amod |
| 18 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 commit | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 commit | aux |
| 20 | commit | commit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wandering | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 arises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | present | the question | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | repress | past · do-support | aberrations = aberration | such perversions of history | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perversion=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | aberrations = aberration | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | commit | might | undisciplined members | vn confine-92-1 «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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