Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 27
When we see how closely the Christian compilers followed the early authorities, we can well believe that in the ethnic times no mind would have been sufficiently daring or sacrilegious to alter or pervert those epics which were in their eyes at the same time true and sacred.
Who acts: we, Christian compilers, mind, epics · What happens: see, follow, believe, dare, alter, pervert · To what, where: early authorities, epics, eyes
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 (we, Christian compilers, mind, epics), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | advcl |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 closely | advmod |
| 5 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 9 followed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 compilers | det |
| 7 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 compilers | amod |
| 8 | compilers | compiler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 followed | nsubj |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 authorities | det |
| 11 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 authorities | amod |
| 12 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 followed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | aux |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 believe | advmod |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 daring | mark |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 times | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 times | det |
| 21 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | amod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 daring | obl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 mind | det |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 daring | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 daring | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 daring | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 daring | aux |
| 28 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 29 daring | advmod |
| 29 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 believe | advcl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 sacrilegious | cc |
| 31 | sacrilegious | sacrilegious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 daring | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 alter | mark |
| 33 | alter | alter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sacrilegious | xcomp |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 pervert | cc |
| 35 | pervert | pervert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 alter | conj |
| 36 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 epics | det |
| 37 | epics | epic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pervert | obj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 eyes | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 eyes | cop |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 eyes | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 epics | acl:relcl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 time | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 time | det |
| 45 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 time | amod |
| 46 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 eyes | nmod |
| 47 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 time | amod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 sacred | cc |
| 49 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 true | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | the Christian compilers | the early authorities | closely property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme | |||
| 3 | believe | can | we | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | dare | would · perfect · progressive | no mind | time | sufficiently property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | alter | to-infinitive | no mind not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | pervert | infinitive | no mind not said here | that epics | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | that epics | minds's eyes | time | minds = mind nmod:poss | 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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