Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 37
Her ancient history passed unceasingly into the realm of artistic representation; the history of one generation became the poetry of the next, until the whole island was illuminated and coloured by the poetry of the bards.
Who acts: ancient history, history · What happens: pass, become, illuminate, colour · To what, where: realm, poetry, whole island
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 (ancient history, history), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 history | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 history | amod |
| 3 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unceasingly | unceasingly | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 realm | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 realm | det |
| 8 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 representation | case |
| 10 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 representation | amod |
| 11 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 realm | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 history | det |
| 14 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 generation | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 generation | nummod |
| 17 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 history | nmod |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 poetry | det |
| 20 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 next | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 next | det |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 poetry | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 illuminated | punct |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 illuminated | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 island | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 island | amod |
| 28 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 30 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 became | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 coloured | cc |
| 32 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 illuminated | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 poetry | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 poetry | det |
| 35 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coloured | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 bards | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bards | det |
| 38 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 poetry | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Ireland's ancient history | the realm of artistic representation | unceasingly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into realm=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | the history of one generation | the poetry of the next | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | illuminate | past · passive | the whole island | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 4 | colour | participle | by the poetry of the bards | 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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