Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 12
It would, therefore, be extremely improbable that the bards of the Christian period, when the days of rath and cairn had departed, would modify, to any considerable extent, the literature produced in conditions of society which had passed away.
Who acts: interest, bards · What happens: be, depart, modify, produce, pass away, condition · To what, where: days, considerable extent, literature, conditions, society
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (interest, bards), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 improbable | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 improbable | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 would | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 improbable | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 improbable | cop |
| 7 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 8 improbable | advmod |
| 8 | improbable | improbable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 modify | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bards | det |
| 11 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 modify | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 period | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 period | det |
| 14 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 period | amod |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bards | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 departed | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 departed | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 days | det |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rath | case |
| 21 | rath | rath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 days | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cairn | cc |
| 23 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rath | conj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 departed | aux |
| 25 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bards | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bards | punct |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 modify | aux |
| 28 | modify | modify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 improbable | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 extent | punct |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 extent | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 extent | det |
| 32 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 extent | amod |
| 33 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 modify | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 literature | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 literature | det |
| 36 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 extent | appos |
| 37 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 literature | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 conditions | case |
| 39 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 produced | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 society | case |
| 41 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 conditions | nmod |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 passed | aux |
| 44 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 society | acl:relcl |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 passed | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 improbable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | interest | extremely, improbable, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depart | past · perfect · passive | the days of rath and cairn | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | modify | would | the bards of the Christian period | any considerable extent | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent extent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | produce | participle | the literature not said here | conditions of society | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pass away | past · perfect · passive | society | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | condition | society | nom condition «state 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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