Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 56
There is not through the length and breadth of the country a conspicuous rath or barrow of which we cannot find the traditional history preserved in this ancient literature.
Who acts: conspicuous rath, we · What happens: not be, not find, preserve · To what, where: length, traditional history, ancient 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 (conspicuous rath, we), 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 | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 length | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 length | det |
| 6 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 breadth | cc |
| 8 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 length | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 length | nmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rath | det |
| 13 | conspicuous | conspicuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rath | amod |
| 14 | rath | rath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 barrow | cc |
| 16 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rath | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 find | obl |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 find | advmod |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 barrow | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 history | det |
| 24 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 history | amod |
| 25 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 26 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 history | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 literature | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 literature | det |
| 29 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 literature | amod |
| 30 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 preserved | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not does | present | a conspicuous rath or barrow | the length of the country and breadth; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through length=Location | ||||
| 2 | not find | can | we | the traditional history | of barrow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic | |||
| 3 | preserve | participle | the traditional history not said here | this ancient literature | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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