Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 69
I desire here to record my complete and emphatic dissent from the opinions advanced by a writer in Hermathena on the subject of the Ogham inscriptions, and the introduction into this country of the art of writing.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: desire, record, advance, dissent · To what, where: complete dissent, opinions
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 (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 desire | nsubj |
| 2 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 desire | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 record | mark |
| 5 | record | record | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desire | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dissent | nmod:poss |
| 7 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dissent | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 emphatic | cc |
| 9 | emphatic | emphatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 complete | conj |
| 10 | dissent | dissent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 record | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 opinions | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 opinions | det |
| 13 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 record | obl |
| 14 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 opinions | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 writer | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 writer | det |
| 17 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 advanced | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Hermathena | case |
| 19 | Hermathena | Hermathena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 advanced | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 subject | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 subject | det |
| 22 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 advanced | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 inscriptions | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 inscriptions | det |
| 25 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 inscriptions | compound |
| 26 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 subject | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 introduction | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 introduction | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 introduction | det |
| 30 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 desire | parataxis |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 country | det |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 introduction | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 art | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 art | det |
| 36 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 country | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 writing | case |
| 38 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 art | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | here | the introduction into this country of the art of writing parataxis | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | record | to-infinitive | I not said here | my complete dissent | the opinions | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dissent=Theme | |||
| 3 | advance | participle | the opinions not said here | by a writer; on the subject of the Ogham inscriptions; in Hermathena | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient by writer=Extent in hermathena=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | dissent | my | nom dissent «communication intransitive»: poss=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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