Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 14

For the last century, intellects of the highest attainments, trained and educated to the last degree, have been vainly endeavouring to solve a similar question in the far less copious and less varied heroic literature of Greece.

What happens: train, educate, endeavour, solve · To what, where: highest attainments, similar question, copious heroic literature

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 endeavouring	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 intellects	punct
6	intellects	intellect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 century	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 attainments	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 attainments	det
9	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 attainments	amod
10	attainments	attainment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 intellects	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trained	punct
12	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 attainments	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 educated	cc
14	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 trained	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 degree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 degree	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 degree	amod
18	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 educated	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 century	punct
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 endeavouring	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 endeavouring	aux
22	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	23 endeavouring	advmod
23	endeavouring	endeavour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	to	to	PART	_	25 solve	mark
25	solve	solve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 endeavouring	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 question	det
27	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 question	amod
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 solve	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	38 literature	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 literature	det
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 copious	advmod
32	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 copious	advmod
33	copious	copious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 literature	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 varied	cc
35	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 varied	advmod
36	varied	varied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 copious	conj
37	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 literature	amod
38	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 solve	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Greece	case
40	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 literature	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 endeavouring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	participle	the highest attainments not said here				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	educate speech: other	participle				to the last degree	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	endeavour	present · perfect · progressive			century	vainly property	tree rules
4	solve	to-infinitive	a similar question	the copious heroic literature of Greece			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 14