Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 58

The literature which groups itself around a hero exhibits not only an unity with itself, but an acquaintance with the general course of the history of the country, and with preceding and succeeding kings.

Who acts: literature · What happens: exhibit, precede, succeed · To what, where: unity, kings

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 (literature), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 literature	det
2	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exhibits	nsubj
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 groups	det
4	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 literature	conj
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 groups	nmod
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 hero	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hero	det
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 literature	nmod
9	exhibits	exhibit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 unity	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 unity	advmod
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 unity	det
13	unity	unity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exhibits	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 itself	case
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 unity	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 acquaintance	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 acquaintance	cc
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 acquaintance	det
19	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exhibits	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 course	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 course	det
22	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 course	amod
23	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 acquaintance	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 history	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 history	det
26	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 course	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 country	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 country	det
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 history	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 preceding	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 preceding	cc
32	with	with	SCONJ	_	33 preceding	mark
33	preceding	precede	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 exhibits	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 succeeding	cc
35	succeeding	succeed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 preceding	conj
36	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 succeeding	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 exhibits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exhibit	present	the literature around a hero and which groups tale	a unity	with tale; a acquaintance with the general course of the history of the country obl	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unity=Theme
2	precede	gerund	the literature around a hero and which groups tale not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	succeed	gerund	the literature around a hero and which groups tale not said here	kings		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 58

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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 58