Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 15
It is, therefore, probable that the age of production and creation, with regard to the ethnic history, ceased about the fifth and sixth centuries, and that, about that time, men began to gather up into a collected form the floating literature connected with the pagan period.
Who acts: loss, men · What happens: be, cease, begin, gather up, collect, float · To what, where: that, floating literature
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, men), 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 | 6 probable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 probable | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 probable | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 6 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 age | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 age | det |
| 9 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 probable | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 production | case |
| 11 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 age | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 creation | cc |
| 13 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 age | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 regard | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 regard | case |
| 16 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 probable | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 history | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 history | det |
| 19 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 history | amod |
| 20 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 regard | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ceased | punct |
| 22 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 regard | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 centuries | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 centuries | det |
| 25 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 centuries | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sixth | cc |
| 27 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fifth | conj |
| 28 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ceased | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 began | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 began | cc |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 began | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 that | punct |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 time | det |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 began | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 time | punct |
| 37 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 began | nsubj |
| 38 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 probable | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 gather | mark |
| 40 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 began | xcomp |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 gather | compound:prt |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 form | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 form | det |
| 44 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 form | amod |
| 45 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gather | obl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 literature | det |
| 47 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 literature | amod |
| 48 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 form | appos |
| 49 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 literature | acl |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 period | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 period | det |
| 52 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 period | amod |
| 53 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 connected | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 probable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | loss | the age of production and creation | regard to the ethnic history parataxis; probable, therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cease | participle | loss not said here | century | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | men | that | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | gather up | to-infinitive | men not said here | into a collected form | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into form=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | collect | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | connect | participle | the floating literature not said here | with the pagan period | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with period=Co-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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