Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 82
Whether the Ogham was a native alphabet or a derivative from another, it was at first employed only to a limited extent.
Who acts: Ogham · What happens: be, employ · To what, where: native alphabet, derivative
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 (Ogham), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 7 alphabet | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ogham | det |
| 3 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 alphabet | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 alphabet | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 alphabet | det |
| 6 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 alphabet | amod |
| 7 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 employed | advcl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 derivative | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 derivative | det |
| 10 | derivative | derivative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alphabet | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 derivative | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 alphabet | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 employed | aux:pass |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 employed | obl |
| 18 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 extent | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 extent | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 extent | det |
| 22 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 extent | amod |
| 23 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 employed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Ogham | a native alphabet or a derivative from another | a derivative from another conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | employ | past · passive | derivative | to a limited extent | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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