Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 57

Around each of the greater heroes there groups itself a mass of bardic literature, varying in tone and statement, but preserving a substantial unity as to the general character and the more important achievements of the hero, and also, a fact upon which their general historical accuracy may be based with confidence, exhibiting a knowledge of that same prior and subsequent history recorded in the _fasti_.

What happens: vary, preserve, base, exhibit, record, achieve · To what, where: fact, tone, substantial unity, general historical accuracy, knowledge, same prior history

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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADP	_	2 each	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 groups	det
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 heroes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heroes	det
5	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 heroes	amod
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 each	nmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 each	advmod
8	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 groups	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mass	det
11	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 groups	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 literature	case
13	bardic	bardic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 literature	amod
14	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mass	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 varying	punct
16	varying	vary	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 mass	appos
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 tone	case
18	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 varying	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 statement	cc
20	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tone	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 preserving	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 preserving	cc
23	preserving	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 varying	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 unity	det
25	substantial	substantial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 unity	amod
26	unity	unity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 preserving	obj
27	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	31 character	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	27 as	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 character	det
30	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 character	amod
31	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 preserving	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 achievements	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 achievements	det
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 important	advmod
35	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 achievements	amod
36	achievements	achievement	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 character	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 hero	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hero	det
39	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 achievements	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 fact	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 fact	cc
42	also	also	ADV	_	45 fact	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 also	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 fact	det
45	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 varying	obl
46	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 based	obl
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 accuracy	nmod:poss
49	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 accuracy	amod
50	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 accuracy	amod
51	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 based	nsubj:pass
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 based	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 based	aux:pass
54	based	base	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 fact	acl
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 confidence	case
56	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 based	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 exhibiting	punct
58	exhibiting	exhibit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 varying	conj
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 knowledge	det
60	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 exhibiting	obj
61	of	of	ADP	_	67 history	case
62	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	67 history	nsubj
63	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 history	amod
64	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 history	amod
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 subsequent	cc
66	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 prior	conj
67	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 knowledge	nmod
68	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	67 history	acl
69	in	in	ADP	_	72 fasti	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 fasti	det
71	_	_	PUNCT	_	72 fasti	punct
72	fasti	fasti	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 recorded	obl
73	_	_	PUNCT	_	58 exhibiting	punct
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 groups	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vary	gerund	a fact	tone and statement		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	preserve	gerund	a substantial unity		as the general character and the important achievements of the hero	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unity=Beneficiary
3	base	may · passive	achievements's general historical accuracy		upon a fact; with confidence	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with confidence=Source
4	exhibit	gerund	a knowledge of same prior history that			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme
5	record	participle	same prior history that not said here	the fasti		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in fasti=Destination
7	achieve		the hero			nom achievement «act transitive»: of=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 57