Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 21
The prose tale is founded upon a metrical original, and composed in the meretricious style then in fashion, while the old metrical excerpts are pure and simple.
Who acts: old metrical excerpts · What happens: found, compose, be · To what, where: prose tale, meretricious style
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 (old metrical excerpts), 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 | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | compound |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | aux:pass |
| 5 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 original | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 original | det |
| 8 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 original | amod |
| 9 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 composed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 composed | cc |
| 12 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 founded | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 style | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 style | det |
| 15 | meretricious | meretricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 style | amod |
| 16 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 composed | obl |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 fashion | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fashion | case |
| 19 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 composed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pure | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 pure | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 excerpts | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 excerpts | amod |
| 24 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 excerpts | amod |
| 25 | excerpts | excerpt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pure | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pure | cop |
| 27 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 composed | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 simple | cc |
| 29 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pure | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | present · passive | the prose tale | upon a metrical original | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | compose | participle | the meretricious style | in fashion | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the old metrical excerpts | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the old metrical excerpts not said here | 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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