Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 69
A people who alone in Europe preserved, not in dry chronicles alone, but illuminated and adorned with all that fancy could suggest in ballad, and tale, and rude epic, the history of the mound-raising period, are not justly liable to this taunt.
Who acts: people · What happens: preserve, illuminate, adorn, suggest, raise, not be · To what, where: tale, dry chronicles, ballad
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 preserved | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 alone | nsubj |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 7 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chronicles | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 chronicles | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chronicles | case |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chronicles | amod |
| 12 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 preserved | obl |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 chronicles | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 illuminated | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 illuminated | cc |
| 16 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 suggest | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 adorned | cc |
| 18 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 illuminated | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 fancy | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 fancy | det:predet |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 fancy | det |
| 22 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adorned | obl |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 suggest | aux |
| 24 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 preserved | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ballad | case |
| 26 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 suggest | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tale | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tale | cc |
| 29 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preserved | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 epic | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 epic | cc |
| 32 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 epic | amod |
| 33 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 preserved | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 history | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 history | det |
| 36 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 epic | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 period | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 period | det |
| 39 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 raising | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 mound | punct |
| 41 | raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 period | amod |
| 42 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 history | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 liable | punct |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 liable | cop |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 liable | advmod |
| 46 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 47 liable | advmod |
| 47 | liable | liable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 epic | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 taunt | case |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 taunt | det |
| 50 | taunt | taunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 liable | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 preserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | past | a people in Europe | tale | dry chronicles | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | illuminate | participle | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | adorn | participle | with all fancy | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fancy=Theme | |||||
| 4 | suggest speech: suggest | could | ballad | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | raise | gerund | mound compound | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is | present | a people in Europe not said here | to this taunt; justly, liable property | tree rules |
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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