Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 55
The tribal system, with the necessity of affinity as a ground of citizenship, demanded such a preservation of pedigrees in every family, and particularly in the kingly houses.
Who acts: tribal system · What happens: demand, preserve · To what, where: preservation, kingly houses, pedigrees
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 (tribal system), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 system | det |
| 2 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 system | amod |
| 3 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 demanded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 necessity | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 necessity | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 necessity | det |
| 7 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 system | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 affinity | case |
| 9 | affinity | affinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 necessity | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 necessity | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 citizenship | case |
| 14 | citizenship | citizenship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ground | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 system | punct |
| 16 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 preservation | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 preservation | det |
| 19 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 demanded | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pedigrees | case |
| 21 | pedigrees | pedigree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 preservation | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 family | det |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pedigrees | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 houses | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 houses | cc |
| 27 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 31 houses | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 houses | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 houses | det |
| 30 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 houses | amod |
| 31 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 demanded | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | the tribal system | such preservation of pedigrees in every family | the kingly houses | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme preservation=Precondition | |||
| 2 | preserve | pedigrees in every family | nom preservation «act transitive»: of=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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