Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 53
To these I have at times appended the dates, as given in the chronicles, to show how the early historians rationalised the pre-historic record.
Who acts: I, early historians · What happens: have, append, give, show, rationalis · To what, where: dates, chronicles, pre-historic record
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 (I, early 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 have | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 times | case |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appended | obl |
| 7 | appended | append | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dates | det |
| 9 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appended | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 given | mark |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 appended | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 chronicles | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chronicles | det |
| 15 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 given | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | parataxis |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 rationalised | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 historians | det |
| 21 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 historians | amod |
| 22 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rationalised | nsubj |
| 23 | rationalised | rationalis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 record | det |
| 25 | pre-historic | pre-historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 record | amod |
| 26 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rationalised | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | to these | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | append | past | I not said here | the dates | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | participle | the chronicles | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | rationalis | past | the early historians | the pre-historic record | tree rules |
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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