Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 91
This being so, he will conclude that the universal ascription of Ogham, and Ogham only, to the ethnic times, arises solely from the fact that such was the alphabet then employed.
Who acts: This, force, universal ascription, such alphabet · What happens: be, conclude, arise, employ, ascribe · To what, where: fact, such alphabet, Ogham
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 (This, force, universal ascription, such alphabet), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 so | nsubj |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 so | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 conclude | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 conclude | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 conclude | aux |
| 7 | conclude | conclude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 arises | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ascription | det |
| 10 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ascription | amod |
| 11 | ascription | ascription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arises | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ogham | case |
| 13 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ascription | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ogham | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Ogham | cc |
| 16 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ogham | conj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 times | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 only | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 times | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 times | det |
| 21 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | amod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ascription | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ascription | punct |
| 24 | arises | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 conclude | ccomp |
| 25 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 28 fact | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 fact | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fact | det |
| 28 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arises | obj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 employed | mark |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 alphabet | amod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 alphabet | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 alphabet | det |
| 33 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 employed | nsubj |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 employed | advmod |
| 35 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fact | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 conclude | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | This | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conclude | future | force | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arise | present | the universal ascription of Ogham and Ogham to the ethnic times | the fact | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fact=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the such alphabet | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | employ | past | the such alphabet | the fact not said here | then | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | |||
| 6 | ascribe | Ogham and Ogham | nom ascription «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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