Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 49

A work treating of early Irish kings, in the same way in which the historians of neighbouring countries treat of their own early kings, would be, to the Irish public generally, unreadable.

Who acts: work, historians · What happens: treat, be · To what, where: same way

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, historians), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 work	det
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 public	nsubj
3	treating	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 work	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 kings	case
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kings	amod
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kings	amod
7	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 treating	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treating	obl:unmarked
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 treat	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 historians	det
16	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 treat	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 countries	case
18	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 countries	amod
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 historians	nmod
20	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 kings	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 kings	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kings	amod
24	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kings	amod
25	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 treat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 work	punct
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 public	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 public	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 public	punct
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 public	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 public	det
32	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 public	amod
33	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
34	generally	generally	ADV	_	33 public	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 unreadable	punct
36	unreadable	unreadable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 public	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 public	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	treat	gerund	a work not said here	the same way	of early Irish kings	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	treat	present	the historians of neighbouring countries	the same way	of countries's own early kings	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	a work		to the Irish public; generally property	tree rules
4	be		a work not said here			tree rules

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 49

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Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 49