Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 71
I advance no opinion upon that, but an invention of the Christian time it most assuredly was not.
Who acts: I · What happens: advance, invent · To what, where: opinion, Christian time
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), 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 advance | nsubj |
| 2 | advance | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 opinion | det |
| 4 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advance | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 opinion | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 invention | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 invention | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 invention | det |
| 10 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advance | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invention | nmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 was | nsubj |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 assuredly | advmod |
| 17 | assuredly | assuredly | ADV | _ | 18 was | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 was | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | present | I | no opinion | upon that; a invention of the Christian time obl | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer opinion=Patient | |||
| 2 | invent | the Christian time | nom invention «cognition 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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