Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 42
In the theogony of the ancient inhabitants of this country, we have an example of a slowly-growing, slowly-changing mythology, such as no other nation in the world can supply.
Who acts: we, example · What happens: have, grow, change, supply, exemplify · To what, where: theogony, changing mythology
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 (we, example), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 theogony | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 theogony | det |
| 3 | theogony | theogony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 inhabitants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inhabitants | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 inhabitants | amod |
| 7 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 theogony | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inhabitants | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 theogony | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 example | det |
| 15 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 supply | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mythology | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mythology | det |
| 18 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 growing | advmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 slowly | punct |
| 20 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 mythology | csubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 changing | punct |
| 22 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 24 changing | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 slowly | punct |
| 24 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 mythology | amod |
| 25 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 example | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 nation | punct |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 31 nation | case |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 such | fixed |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 nation | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nation | amod |
| 31 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mythology | appos |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 nation | nmod |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 supply | aux |
| 36 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | the theogony of the ancient inhabitants of this country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | change | gerund | slowly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | supply | can | a example of a changing mythology | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | exemplify | a changing mythology | nom example «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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