Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 13
The error of the mediaeval historians is shared by the not wiser moderns.
Who acts: wiser moderns, mediaeval historians · What happens: share, err · To what, where: error
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 (wiser moderns, mediaeval historians), 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 error | det |
| 2 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 historians | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 historians | det |
| 5 | mediaeval | mediaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 historians | compound |
| 6 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 error | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shared | aux:pass |
| 8 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 moderns | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moderns | det |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wiser | advmod |
| 12 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 moderns | amod |
| 13 | moderns | modern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present · passive | the wiser moderns | the error of the mediaeval historians | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | err | the mediaeval historians | nom error «act 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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