Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 8
Had nought but the chronicles been preserved the task would have been simple.
Who acts: task · What happens: have, preserve, be · To what, where: nought, chronicles
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 (task), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 1 Had | obj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 preserved | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chronicles | det |
| 5 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 preserved | aux:pass |
| 7 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Had | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 task | det |
| 9 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 simple | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 simple | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 simple | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 simple | cop |
| 13 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 preserved | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | nought | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nought=Patient | |||||
| 2 | preserve | participle · passive | the chronicles | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | is | would · perfect | the task | simple property | 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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