Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 102

Gradually, as his actual achievements became more remote, and the imagination of the bards, proportionately, more unrestrained, he would pass into the world of the supernatural.

Who acts: actual achievements, Wexford · What happens: become, pass, achieve, imagine · To what, where: world, bards

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (actual achievements, Wexford), 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	Gradually	gradually	ADV	_	7 became	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gradually	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 became	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 achievements	nmod:poss
5	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 achievements	amod
6	achievements	achievement	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 remote	advmod
9	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unrestrained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unrestrained	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 imagination	det
13	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unrestrained	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 bards	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bards	det
16	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 imagination	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 imagination	punct
18	proportionately	proportionately	ADV	_	21 unrestrained	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 proportionately	punct
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 unrestrained	advmod
21	unrestrained	unrestrained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pass	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pass	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pass	aux
25	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 unrestrained	parataxis
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pass	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 supernatural	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 supernatural	det
31	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 world	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Wexford's actual achievements			gradually, remote, unrestrained property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	pass	would	Wexford		the world of the supernatural		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
3	achieve		Wexford				nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	imagine			the bards			nom imagination «cognition 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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 102