Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 11

The mythology of the Irish nation, being relieved of the marvellous and sublime, was set down with circumstantial dates as a portion of the country's history by the literary men of the middle ages.

Who acts: literary men · What happens: be, set down · To what, where: mythology

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 (literary men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mythology	det
2	mythology	mythology	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 nation	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nation	det
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nation	amod
6	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mythology	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 relieved	punct
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 relieved	cop
9	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mythology	conj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 marvellous	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 marvellous	det
12	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 relieved	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sublime	cc
14	sublime	sublime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 marvellous	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mythology	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 set	aux:pass
17	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 set	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 dates	case
20	circumstantial	circumstantial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dates	amod
21	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 set	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 portion	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 portion	det
24	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 history	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 country	det
27	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 history	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 country	case
29	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 portion	nmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 men	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 men	det
32	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 set	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 ages	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ages	det
36	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ages	compound
37	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 men	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the literary men of the middle ages not said here					relieved property	tree rules
2	set down	past · passive	the literary men of the middle ages	the mythology of the Irish nation				with circumstantial dates; as a portion of the country's history	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with date=Instrument

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 11