Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 76
So far as the clear light of history reaches, so far may these tales be proved to be historical.
Who acts: clear light · What happens: reach, prove, be, light · To what, where: tales, 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: who acts (clear light), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 reaches | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 reaches | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 light | amod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reaches | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 history | case |
| 8 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | nmod |
| 9 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 proved | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 proved | advmod |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 proved | aux |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 tales | det |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 proved | aux:pass |
| 17 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 reaches | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 historical | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 historical | cop |
| 20 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 proved | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | the clear light of history | far property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prove | may · passive | this tales | far property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | historical property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | light | history | nom light «phenomenon 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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