Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 72

A practice which we can trace to the edge of that period whose historical character may be proved to demonstration, we may conclude to have extended on into the period immediately preceding that.

Who acts: practice, we · What happens: trace, prove, conclude, extend, precede · To what, where: practice, period, that

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 (practice, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 practice	det
2	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proved	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 trace	nsubj
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 trace	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 trace	aux
6	trace	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 practice	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trace	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 period	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 period	det
12	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 edge	nmod
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 character	nmod:poss
14	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 character	amod
15	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 period	appos
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 proved	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 proved	aux:pass
18	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 demonstration	case
20	demonstration	demonstration	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proved	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 conclude	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 conclude	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 conclude	aux
24	conclude	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 proved	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 extended	mark
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 extended	aux
27	extended	extend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 conclude	xcomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 period	case
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 period	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 period	det
31	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 extended	obl
32	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	33 preceding	advmod
33	preceding	precede	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 extended	advcl
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 preceding	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trace	can	a practice			to the edge of that period; we nsubj	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	prove	may · passive		a practice		to demonstration	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	conclude	may	we				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	extend	to-infinitive · perfect	we not said here		the period		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on period=Location
5	precede	gerund	we not said here	that		immediately property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme

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 72

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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 72