Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 22

Granted that the imagination which for centuries followed with eager interest the lives of these heroes, beheld as gigantic what was not so, as romantic and heroic what was neither one nor the other, still the great fact remains, that it was beside and in connection with the mounds and cairns that this history was elaborated, and elaborated concerning them and concerning the heroes to whom they were sacred.

Who acts: great fact, fact, mounds, heroes · What happens: grant, follow, behold, not be, be, remain · To what, where: centuries, lives, connection, history, mounds, heroes

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 (great fact, fact, mounds, heroes), 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	Granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 which	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 imagination	det
4	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 which	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Granted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 centuries	case
7	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 which	nmod
8	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 centuries	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 interest	case
10	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 interest	amod
11	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 followed	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lives	det
13	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 interest	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 heroes	case
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 heroes	det
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lives	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beheld	punct
18	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lives	acl
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 gigantic	case
20	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beheld	obl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 so	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 so	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 so	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	18 beheld	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
26	as	as	ADP	_	33 one	case
27	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 heroic	cc
29	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 romantic	conj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 one	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 one	cop
32	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 one	cc:preconj
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 beheld	parataxis
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 other	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 remains	punct
38	still	still	ADV	_	42 remains	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fact	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fact	amod
41	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 remains	nsubj
42	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 one	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 connection	punct
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 connection	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 connection	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 connection	cop
47	beside	beside	ADP	_	50 connection	case
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 connection	cc
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 connection	case
50	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 remains	obl
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 mounds	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 mounds	det
53	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 connection	nmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 cairns	cc
55	cairns	cairn	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 mounds	conj
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 elaborated	mark
57	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 history	det
58	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 elaborated	nsubj:pass
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 elaborated	aux:pass
60	elaborated	elaborate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 mounds	acl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 elaborated	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 elaborated	cc
63	elaborated	elaborate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 remains	conj
64	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	63 elaborated	xcomp
65	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 concerning	obj
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 concerning	cc
67	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	64 concerning	conj
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 heroes	det
69	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 concerning	obj
70	to	to	ADP	_	71 whom	case
71	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 concerning	obl
72	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 sacred	nsubj
73	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 sacred	cop
74	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 whom	acl:relcl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	participle					for centuries; which the imagination obj	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme
2	follow	participle		centuries not said here			with eager interest and the lives of this heroes	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	behold	participle		the lives of this heroes not said here			as gigantic	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is	past					what nsubj; so property	tree rules
5	is	past					as romantic one; what nsubj	tree rules
6	be							tree rules
7	remain	present	the great fact			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	fact		connection		with the mounds and cairns	tree rules
9	elaborate speech: other	past · passive	the mounds and cairns not said here	this history				tree rules
10	elaborate speech: other	past	the great fact not said here					tree rules
11	concern	gerund	the great fact not said here	mounds = mound				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
12	concern	gerund	the great fact not said here	the heroes			whom obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hero=Experiencer
13	is	past	heroes = hero				sacred property	tree rules

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 22