Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 14

The loss to the bards was direct, by the withdrawal of so much intellect from their ranks, and indirect, by the general substitution of other ideas for those whose ministers they themselves were.

Who acts: loss, other ideas · What happens: be, indirect, withdraw, substitute · To what, where: much intellect

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 (loss, other ideas), 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 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 direct	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bards	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bards	det
5	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loss	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 direct	cop
7	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 withdrawal	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 withdrawal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 withdrawal	det
11	withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 direct	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 intellect	case
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 intellect	amod
15	intellect	intellect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 withdrawal	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 ranks	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ranks	nmod:poss
18	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 intellect	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 indirect	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 indirect	cc
21	indirect	indirect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 direct	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 substitution	punct
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 substitution	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 substitution	det
25	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 substitution	amod
26	substitution	substitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 indirect	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ideas	case
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ideas	amod
29	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 substitution	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 ministers	case
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 ministers	det
32	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	33 ministers	nmod:poss
33	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ideas	nmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 were	nsubj
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	34 they	nmod:unmarked
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ministers	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 direct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the loss to the bards		by the withdrawal of much intellect from bards's ranks; direct property	tree rules
2	indirect	present			by the general substitution of other ideas for other ideas for that ministers's ministers	tree rules
3	withdraw			much intellect from bards's ranks		nom withdrawal «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	substitute		other ideas for other ideas for other ideas's ministers's ministers			nom substitution «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 3, sentence 14