Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 10
But in Irish history there remains, demanding treatment, that other immense mass of literature of an imaginative nature, illuminating with anecdote and tale the events and personages mentioned simply and without comment by the chronicler.
Who acts: other immense mass, chronicler · What happens: demand, illuminate, mention, comment · To what, where: Irish history
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other immense mass, chronicler), 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 | _ | 31 mentioned | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 history | case |
| 3 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 history | amod |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mentioned | obl |
| 5 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 6 remains | nmod:poss |
| 6 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 history | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 treatment | punct |
| 8 | demanding | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 treatment | amod |
| 9 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remains | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mass | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 mass | mark |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mass | amod |
| 13 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mass | amod |
| 14 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 history | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 literature | case |
| 16 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mass | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nature | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nature | det |
| 19 | imaginative | imaginative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nature | amod |
| 20 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 literature | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 illuminating | punct |
| 22 | illuminating | illuminate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 mass | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 anecdote | case |
| 24 | anecdote | anecdote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 illuminating | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tale | cc |
| 26 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 anecdote | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 events | det |
| 28 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 anecdote | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 personages | cc |
| 30 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 events | conj |
| 31 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 31 mentioned | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 comment | cc |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 35 comment | case |
| 35 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mentioned | obl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 chronicler | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 chronicler | det |
| 38 | chronicler | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 comment | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | gerund | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | illuminate | gerund | other immense mass of literature of a imaginative nature not said here | with anecdote and tale and the events and personages | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with anecdote=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | past | Irish history and other immense mass of literature of a imaginative nature | without comment by the chronicler; simply property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | comment | the chronicler | nom comment «communication transitive»: by=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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