Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 33
Rome was a seedling shaken from some old perished civilisation.
Who acts: Rome · What happens: be, shake, perish · To what, where: seedling
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rome), 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 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seedling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seedling | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 seedling | det |
| 4 | seedling | seedling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seedling | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 civilisation | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 civilisation | nsubj |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 civilisation | amod |
| 9 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 civilisation | amod |
| 10 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shaken | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seedling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rome | a seedling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | participle | a seedling not said here | from old perished civilisation | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from civilisation=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | perish | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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