Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 38

Productions of mere fancy and imagination these songs are not, though fancy and imagination may have coloured and shaped all their subject-matter, but the names are names of men and women who once lived and died in Ireland, and over whom their people raised the swelling rath and reared the rocky cromlech.

Who acts: songs, names, men, people, fancy · What happens: colour, shape, be, live, die, raise · To what, where: fancy, subject matter, names, songs, rocky cromlech, mere fancy

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 (songs, names, men, people), 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	Productions	production	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 songs	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 fancy	case
3	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fancy	amod
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Productions	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 imagination	cc
6	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	conj
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 songs	det
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 not	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 songs	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 coloured	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 coloured	mark
13	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coloured	nsubj:pass
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 imagination	cc
15	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fancy	conj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 coloured	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 coloured	aux
18	coloured	colour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 songs	acl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shaped	cc
20	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 coloured	conj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 matter	det:predet
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 matter	nmod:poss
23	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 matter	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 subject	punct
25	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shaped	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 names	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 names	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 names	det
29	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 names	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 names	cop
31	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 songs	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 men	case
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 names	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 women	cc
35	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 men	conj
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 lived	nsubj
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 lived	advmod
38	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 men	acl:relcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 died	cc
40	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lived	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 Ireland	case
42	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 died	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 whom	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 whom	cc
45	over	over	ADV	_	46 whom	advmod
46	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 raised	obj
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 people	nmod:poss
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 raised	nsubj
49	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 songs	acl:relcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 rath	det
51	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rath	compound
52	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 raised	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 reared	cc
54	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 raised	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 cromlech	det
56	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 cromlech	amod
57	cromlech	cromlech	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 reared	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 songs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	colour	may · perfect · passive	this songs Productions of mere fancy and imagination but names not said here	fancy and imagination		tree rules
2	shape	participle	this songs Productions of mere fancy and imagination but names not said here	fancy's subject matter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product
3	is a	present	the names	names	of men and women	tree rules
4	live	past	men and women		once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	past	men and women not said here		in Ireland	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in ireland=Attribute
6	raise	past	names's people	this songs Productions of mere fancy and imagination but names	the swelling rath obj	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme rath=Destination
7	rear	past	names's people not said here	the rocky cromlech		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cromlech=Patient
9	produce			mere fancy and imagination		nom production «act transitive»: of=patient
10	matter		fancy			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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 38