Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 178

But the Christians could never have imagined their saints to have been anything but men--a fact which caused the retention and preservation of the relics.

Who acts: fact · What happens: not imagine, be, cause, preserve · To what, where: Christians, anything, retention, relics

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 (fact), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 imagined	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Christians	det
3	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 imagined	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 imagined	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 imagined	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 imagined	aux
7	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 saints	nmod:poss
9	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 imagined	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	13 anything	mark
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 anything	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 anything	cop
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 imagined	advcl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 men	cc
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 anything	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 fact	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fact	det
18	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 anything	conj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 caused	nsubj
20	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fact	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 retention	det
22	retention	retention	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 caused	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 preservation	cc
24	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 retention	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 relics	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 relics	det
27	relics	relic	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 preservation	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 imagined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not imagine	could · perfect · passive		the Christians	Christians's saints obj	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive · perfect		anything	men conj; a fact conj	tree rules
3	cause	past	a fact	the retention and preservation of the relics		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition retention=Patient
4	preserve			the relics		nom preservation «act 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 178