Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 18
In the Irish heroic literature, the presence or absence of the marvellous supplies _no test whatsoever_ as to the general truth or falsehood of the tale in which they appear.
Who acts: truth · What happens: appear · To what, where: tale, Irish 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: who acts (truth), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 literature | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 literature | det |
| 3 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 literature | amod |
| 4 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 literature | amod |
| 5 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 presence | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presence | det |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 literature | appos |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 absence | cc |
| 10 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 supplies | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 supplies | det |
| 13 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 supplies | amod |
| 14 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 presence | nmod |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 test | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 test | det |
| 17 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 literature | parataxis |
| 18 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 17 test | advmod |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 test | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 truth | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 truth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 23 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 truth | amod |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 _ | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 falsehood | cc |
| 26 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 truth | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tale | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tale | det |
| 29 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 falsehood | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 appear | obl |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 appear | nsubj |
| 33 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 tale | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 literature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | truth | the tale | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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