Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 70
Until very modern times, history was the one absorbing pursuit of the Irish secular intellect, the delight of the noble, and the solace of the vile.
Who acts: history, one, noble · What happens: be, absorb, pursue, delight · To what, where: one, pursuit, Irish secular intellect
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 (history, one, noble), 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 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 4 times | case |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 modern | advmod |
| 3 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 history | nmod:poss |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 times | punct |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | absorbing | absorb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 one | acl |
| 11 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 absorbing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 intellect | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 intellect | det |
| 14 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 intellect | amod |
| 15 | secular | secular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 intellect | amod |
| 16 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pursuit | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 delight | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 delight | det |
| 19 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intellect | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 noble | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 noble | det |
| 22 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delight | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 solace | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 solace | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 solace | det |
| 26 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | appos |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 vile | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 vile | det |
| 29 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 solace | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | modern times's history | the one | the solace appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | absorb | gerund | the one not said here | pursuit of the Irish secular intellect | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal pursuit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pursue | the Irish secular intellect | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | delight | the noble | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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