Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 90
He will find in all the epics no trace of original invention, but always a studied and conscientious following of authority.
Who acts: force · What happens: find, study, follow · To what, where: epics
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 (force), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 epics | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 epics | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 epics | det |
| 7 | epics | epic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | obl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 trace | det |
| 9 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 epics | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 invention | case |
| 11 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 invention | amod |
| 12 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trace | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 studied | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 studied | cc |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 studied | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 studied | det |
| 17 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 find | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 conscientious | cc |
| 19 | conscientious | conscientious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 studied | xcomp |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 conscientious | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 authority | case |
| 22 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 following | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | force | all epics | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | study | participle | force not said here | always, conscientious property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | of authority | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of authority=Trajectory |
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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