Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 39
I at one time suspected that the long pedigrees running between those several divisions of the mythological period were the invention of mediaeval historians, anxious to spin out the national record, that it might reach to Shinar and the dispersion.
Who acts: long pedigrees, record · What happens: suspect, run, be, spin out, reach · To what, where: one time, several divisions, invention, national record, Shinar
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 (long pedigrees, record), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 time | nummod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 time | acl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 invention | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pedigrees | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pedigrees | amod |
| 9 | pedigrees | pedigree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 invention | nsubj |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 pedigrees | acl |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 divisions | case |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 divisions | det |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 divisions | amod |
| 14 | divisions | division | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 running | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 period | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 period | det |
| 17 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 period | amod |
| 18 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 divisions | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 invention | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 invention | det |
| 21 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suspected | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 historians | case |
| 23 | mediaeval | mediaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 historians | compound |
| 24 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 invention | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 anxious | punct |
| 26 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 historians | amod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 spin | mark |
| 28 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 anxious | xcomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 spin | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 record | det |
| 31 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 record | amod |
| 32 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spin | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 reach | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 reach | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 reach | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 reach | aux |
| 37 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 spin | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Shinar | case |
| 39 | Shinar | Shinar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 reach | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dispersion | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 dispersion | det |
| 42 | dispersion | dispersion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Shinar | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | participle | one time I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the long pedigrees not said here | that several divisions of the mythological period | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between division=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the long pedigrees | the invention | of mediaeval historians | tree rules | |||
| 4 | spin out | to-infinitive | the long pedigrees not said here | the national record | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent record=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reach | might | record | Shinar and the dispersion | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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