Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 47

As mere history, and treated in the method in which history is generally written at the present day, a work dealing with the early Irish kings and heroes would certainly not secure an audience.

Who acts: work · What happens: treat, write, deal, not secure · To what, where: mere history, method, audience

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 (work), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 history	case
2	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 history	amod
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 written	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 treated	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 treated	cc
6	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 history	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 method	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 method	det
9	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 treated	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 history	case
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 history	det
12	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 method	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 written	aux:pass
14	generally	generally	ADV	_	15 written	advmod
15	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 day	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 secure	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 day	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 work	det
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 secure	nsubj
23	dealing	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 work	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	28 kings	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 kings	det
26	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 kings	amod
27	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 kings	amod
28	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dealing	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heroes	cc
30	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kings	conj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 secure	aux
32	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	34 secure	advmod
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 secure	advmod
34	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 written	parataxis
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 audience	det
36	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 secure	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	participle		mere history not said here	the method in which history			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	write	present · passive		mere history			generally property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	deal	gerund	a work not said here				with the early Irish kings and heroes	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with king=Theme
4	not secure	would	a work	a audience		day	certainly property	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition audience=Theme

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 47

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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 47