Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 53
Through all these storms, which successively assailed the heroic literature of ancient Ireland, it still held itself undestroyed.
Who acts: literature · What happens: assail, hold · To what, where: heroic literature, storms, literature
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 (literature), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 storms | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 storms | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 storms | det |
| 4 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 assailed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 assailed | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 assailed | nsubj |
| 7 | successively | successively | ADV | _ | 8 assailed | advmod |
| 8 | assailed | assail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 literature | det |
| 10 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 literature | amod |
| 11 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 assailed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ireland | case |
| 13 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Ireland | amod |
| 14 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 literature | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | nsubj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 held | advmod |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 assailed | conj |
| 19 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | undestroyed | undestroyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 held | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 assailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assail | past | the heroic literature of ancient Ireland | all storms | which nsubj; successively property | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent literature=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold | past | literature | literature | still | undestroyed property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
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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