Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 17

When, therefore, Greek still meets Greek in an interminable and apparently bloodless contest over the disputed body of the Iliad, and still no end appears, surely it would be madness for any one to sit down and gaily distinguish true from false in the immense and complex mass of the Irish bardic literature, having in his ears this century-lasting struggle over a single Greek poem and a single small phase of the pre-historic life of Hellas.

Who acts: end, gaily · What happens: meet, dispute, appear, be, sit down, distinguish · To what, where: interminable contest, madness, lasting struggle, ears

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 (end, gaily), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 therefore	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 therefore	punct
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	7 meets	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 therefore	punct
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meets	amod
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 meets	advmod
7	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meets	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	15 contest	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 contest	det
11	interminable	interminable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 contest	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bloodless	cc
13	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	14 bloodless	advmod
14	bloodless	bloodless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 interminable	conj
15	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meets	obl
16	over	over	ADP	_	19 body	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 body	det
18	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 body	amod
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contest	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Iliad	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Iliad	det
22	Iliad	Iliad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 body	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 appears	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 appears	cc
25	still	still	ADV	_	28 appears	advmod
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appears	nsubj
28	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 meets	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 madness	punct
30	surely	surely	ADV	_	34 madness	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 madness	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 madness	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 madness	cop
34	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meets	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 one	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 madness	nmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 sit	mark
39	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 one	acl
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 sit	compound:prt
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 distinguish	cc
42	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 distinguish	nsubj
43	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 madness	conj
44	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 distinguish	xcomp
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 false	case
46	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 distinguish	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	52 mass	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 mass	det
49	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 mass	amod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 complex	cc
51	complex	complex	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 immense	conj
52	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 distinguish	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	57 literature	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 literature	det
55	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 literature	amod
56	bardic	bardic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 literature	amod
57	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 mass	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 having	punct
59	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 distinguish	advcl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 ears	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 ears	nmod:poss
62	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 having	obl
63	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	67 struggle	det
64	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 lasting	compound
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 century	punct
66	lasting	lasting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 struggle	amod
67	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 having	obj
68	over	over	ADP	_	72 poem	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 poem	det
70	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 poem	amod
71	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 poem	amod
72	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 having	obl
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 phase	cc
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 phase	det
75	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 phase	amod
76	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 phase	amod
77	phase	phase	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 poem	conj
78	of	of	ADP	_	81 life	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 life	det
80	pre-historic	pre-historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 life	amod
81	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 phase	nmod
82	of	of	ADP	_	83 Hellas	case
83	Hellas	Hellas	PROPN	Number=Sing	81 life	nmod
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present			a interminable contest over the disputed body of the Iliad	still	greek property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dispute	participle						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	appear	present	no end			still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	would	end	madness			for any one; surely property	tree rules
5	sit down	to-infinitive	end not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	distinguish	present	gaily				in the immense mass of the Irish bardic literature; from false; true property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent from false=Co-Theme
7	have	gerund	gaily not said here	this lasting struggle	literature's ears		over a single Greek poem and a single small phase of the pre-historic life of Hellas	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 17