Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 21
And these histories are in many cases as rich and circumstantial as that of men of the greatest eminence who have lived in modern times.
Who acts: histories, greatest eminence · What happens: be, live · To what, where: many cases
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (histories, greatest eminence), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cases | cc |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 histories | det |
| 3 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cases | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cases | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cases | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cases | amod |
| 7 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 rich | case |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cases | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 circumstantial | cc |
| 11 | circumstantial | circumstantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rich | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 circumstantial | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 that | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eminence | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eminence | det |
| 18 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 eminence | amod |
| 19 | eminence | eminence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lived | aux |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 eminence | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 times | case |
| 24 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 times | amod |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lived | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cases | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this histories | many cases | as rich | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | the greatest eminence | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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