Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 3

Scattered over the surface of every country in Europe may be found sepulchral monuments, the remains of pre-historic times and nations, and of a phase of life will civilisation which has long since passed away.

Who acts: phase civilisation · What happens: scatter, find, have, pass away · To what, where: surface, sepulchral monuments

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 (phase civilisation), 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	Scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 found	advcl
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 surface	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 surface	det
4	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scattered	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 surface	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 country	nmod
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 found	aux:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	sepulchral	sepulchral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monuments	amod
14	monuments	monument	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remains	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 remains	det
17	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 monuments	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 times	case
19	pre-historic	pre-historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 remains	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nations	cc
22	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 times	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 civilisation	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 civilisation	cc
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 phase	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 phase	det
27	phase	phase	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 civilisation	compound
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 phase	nmod
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 civilisation	aux
31	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 has	nsubj
33	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 civilisation	acl:relcl
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 has	advmod
35	since	since	SCONJ	_	36 passed	mark
36	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 has	xcomp
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 passed	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle			the surface of every country in Europe		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over surface=Destination
2	find	may · passive		sepulchral monuments		phase civilisation obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: monument=Topic
3	have	present	phase civilisation			long property	tree rules
4	pass away	participle	phase civilisation not said here			away property	vn die-42.4-1 «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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🌲 Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 3