Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 50
Foreign conquest, or less intrinsic force of imagination, and pious sentiment have suffered them to fall into oblivion; but in Ireland they have been all preserved in their original fulness and vigour, hardly a hue has faded, hardly a minute circumstance or articulation been suffered to decay.
Who acts: pious sentiment, Foreign conquest, hue · What happens: suffer, fall, preserve, fade, decay · To what, where: proof, oblivion, sentiments, Ireland, minute circumstance, articulation
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 (pious sentiment, Foreign conquest, hue), 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 | Foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 conquest | amod |
| 2 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 force | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 force | cc |
| 5 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 force | amod |
| 6 | intrinsic | intrinsic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 force | amod |
| 7 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conquest | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 imagination | case |
| 9 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 force | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 suffered | cc |
| 12 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sentiment | amod |
| 13 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 suffered | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffered | aux |
| 15 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 conquest | acl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 suffered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fall | mark |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 suffered | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 oblivion | case |
| 20 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 preserved | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 preserved | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Ireland | case |
| 24 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 preserved | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 preserved | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 preserved | aux:pass |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 preserved | advmod |
| 29 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 conquest | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 fulness | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fulness | nmod:poss |
| 32 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fulness | amod |
| 33 | fulness | fulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 preserved | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 vigour | cc |
| 35 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fulness | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 faded | punct |
| 37 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 41 faded | advmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hue | det |
| 39 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 faded | nsubj |
| 40 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 faded | aux |
| 41 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 fulness | acl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 circumstance | punct |
| 43 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 46 circumstance | advmod |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 circumstance | det |
| 45 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 circumstance | compound |
| 46 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 faded | obl |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 suffered | cc |
| 48 | articulation | articulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 suffered | nsubj |
| 49 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 suffered | aux:pass |
| 50 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 circumstance | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 decay | mark |
| 52 | decay | decay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 suffered | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conquest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | present · perfect | pious sentiment | proof | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | to-infinitive | pious sentiment not said here | into oblivion result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into oblivion=Result | ||||
| 3 | preserve | present · perfect · passive | Foreign conquest not said here | sentiments = sentiment | Ireland | in sentiments's original fulness and vigour; all property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | fade | present · perfect | a hue | a minute circumstance | hardly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fulness=Patient | |||
| 5 | suffer | participle · passive | articulation | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | decay | to-infinitive | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient 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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