Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 67

This argument has been used by Mr. Gladstone with great confidence, in order to show the substantial historical truthfulness of the Iliad, and that it is in fact a portion of a continuous historic sequence.

Who acts: Mr. Gladstone, argument · What happens: use, show, be · To what, where: argument, substantial historical truthfulness, fact

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 (Mr. Gladstone, argument), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 argument	det
2	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Gladstone	case
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Gladstone	compound
8	Gladstone	gladstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 confidence	case
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 confidence	amod
11	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Gladstone	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 show	punct
13	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 show	mark
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	to	to	PART	_	16 show	mark
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 truthfulness	det
18	substantial	substantial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 truthfulness	amod
19	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 truthfulness	amod
20	truthfulness	truthfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 show	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Iliad	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Iliad	det
23	Iliad	Iliad	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 truthfulness	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fact	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fact	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fact	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fact	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fact	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 fact	case
30	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 show	obl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 portion	det
32	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fact	acl
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 sequence	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sequence	det
35	continuous	continuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sequence	amod
36	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sequence	amod
37	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 portion	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present · perfect · passive	Mr. Gladstone with great confidence	this argument			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive	Mr. Gladstone with great confidence not said here	the substantial historical truthfulness of the Iliad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truthfulness=Recipient
3	is	present	argument		fact	a portion of a continuous historic sequence acl	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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 67