Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 55

Now, if nothing remained of early Irish history save the dry _fasti_ of the chronicles and the Brehon laws, this would, I think, be a perfectly legitimate object of ambition, and would be consonant with my ideal of what the perfect flower of historical literature should be, to illuminate a tale embodying the former by hues derived from the Senchus Mor.

Who acts: you, I, tale · What happens: remain, save, think, be, illuminate, embody · To what, where: nothing, dry fasti, legitimate object, consonant, tale, former

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 (you, I, tale), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 save	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 remained	mark
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 remained	nsubj:pass
5	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 save	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 history	case
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 history	amod
8	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 history	amod
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	obl
10	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fasti	det
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fasti	amod
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 dry	punct
14	fasti	fasti	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 save	obj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 chronicles	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 chronicles	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chronicles	det
18	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fasti	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laws	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 laws	det
21	Brehon	Brehon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 laws	compound
22	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chronicles	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 would	punct
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 would	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 chronicles	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 think	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 think	nsubj
28	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 would	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 object	punct
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 object	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 object	det
32	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	33 legitimate	advmod
33	legitimate	legitimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 object	amod
34	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 save	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 ambition	case
36	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 object	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 consonant	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 consonant	cc
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 consonant	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 consonant	cop
41	consonant	consonant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 object	appos
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 ideal	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 ideal	nmod:poss
44	ideal	ideal	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 consonant	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 what	case
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 ideal	nmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 flower	det
48	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 flower	amod
49	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 be	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 literature	case
51	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 literature	amod
52	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 flower	nmod
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 be	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 what	cop
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 illuminate	punct
56	to	to	PART	_	57 illuminate	mark
57	illuminate	illuminate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 save	conj
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 tale	det
59	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 illuminate	obj
60	embodying	embody	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 tale	acl
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 former	det
62	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 embodying	obj
63	by	by	ADP	_	64 hues	case
64	hues	hue	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 embodying	obl
65	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 hues	acl
66	from	from	ADP	_	69 Mor	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 Mor	det
68	Senchus	Senchus	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 Mor	compound
69	Mor	Mor	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 derived	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		nothing			of early Irish history	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	save	imperative	you not said here	the dry fasti and the chronicles and the Brehon laws		now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fasti=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	I					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	infinitive		a legitimate object			of ambition	tree rules
5	is a	would		consonant			with my ideal	tree rules
6	is	infinitive					of consonant	tree rules
7	illuminate	to-infinitive	you not said here	a tale				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Destination
8	embody	gerund	a tale not said here	the former			by hues	tree rules
9	derive	participle		hues not said here	the Senchus Mor			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from mor=Material

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 55