Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 7

The English have lost utterly all record of those centuries before which the Irish historian stands with dismay and hesitation, not through deficiency of materials, but through their excess.

Who acts: Irish historian · What happens: lose, stand, record · To what, where: English, centuries

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 (Irish historian), 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 English	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 record	det
7	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 centuries	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 centuries	det
10	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 record	nmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stands	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 historian	det
14	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 historian	amod
15	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stands	nsubj
16	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 centuries	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 dismay	case
18	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stands	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hesitation	cc
20	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dismay	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 deficiency	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 deficiency	advmod
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 deficiency	case
24	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dismay	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 materials	case
26	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 deficiency	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 excess	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 excess	cc
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 excess	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 excess	nmod:poss
31	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dismay	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect · passive		the English		all record of that centuries obj; utterly property	tree rules
2	stand	present	the Irish historian		before that centuries	with dismay and hesitation and deficiency of materials but dismay's excess	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before which=Location
3	record			that centuries			nom record «communication 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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 7