Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 54
There were still found generous minds to shelter and shield the old tales and ballads, to feel the nobleness of that life of which they were the outcome, and to resolve that the soil of Ireland should not, so far as they had the power to prevent it, be denuded of its raiment of history and historic romance, or reduced again to primeval nakedness.
Who acts: minds · What happens: find, shelter, shield, feel, be, resolve · To what, where: generous minds, old tales, nobleness, outcome, power, primeval nakedness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (minds), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 found | expl |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 minds | amod |
| 6 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shelter | mark |
| 8 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 found | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shield | cc |
| 10 | shield | shield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shelter | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tales | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tales | amod |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shield | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ballads | cc |
| 15 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tales | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 feel | mark |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shield | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nobleness | det |
| 20 | nobleness | nobleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feel | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 life | det |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nobleness | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 outcome | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 outcome | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 outcome | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 outcome | det |
| 29 | outcome | outcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 life | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 resolve | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 resolve | cc |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 resolve | mark |
| 33 | resolve | resolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 feel | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 should | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 soil | det |
| 36 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 should | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Ireland | case |
| 38 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 soil | nmod |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 resolve | advcl |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 should | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 had | punct |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 far | advmod |
| 43 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 had | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 had | mark |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 had | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 power | det |
| 48 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 prevent | mark |
| 50 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 had | advcl |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 prevent | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 denuded | punct |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 denuded | aux:pass |
| 54 | denuded | denude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 prevent | advcl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 raiment | case |
| 56 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 raiment | nmod:poss |
| 57 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 denuded | obl |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 history | case |
| 59 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 raiment | nmod |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 romance | cc |
| 61 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 romance | amod |
| 62 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 raiment | conj |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 reduced | punct |
| 64 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 65 reduced | cc |
| 65 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 denuded | conj |
| 66 | again | again | ADV | _ | 65 reduced | advmod |
| 67 | to | to | ADP | _ | 69 nakedness | case |
| 68 | primeval | primeval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 nakedness | amod |
| 69 | nakedness | nakedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 reduced | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | generous minds | there | still | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: mind=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | shelter | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | shield | infinitive | the old tales and ballads | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | the nobleness of that life | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobleness=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | minds = mind | the outcome | of that life | tree rules | |||
| 6 | resolve | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | have | past | minds = mind | the power | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 8 | prevent | to-infinitive | minds = mind not said here | power | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | ||||
| 9 | denude | infinitive · passive | minds = mind not said here | of soil's raiment of history and historic romance | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: of raiment=Theme | ||||
| 10 | reduce | participle | minds = mind not said here | again | to primeval nakedness goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to nakedness=Goal | |||
| 11 | soil | Ireland | nom soil «state transitive»: of=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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