Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 29

So much is this the case, that in many tales the most flagrant contradictions appear, the author or scribe being unwilling to depart at all from that which he found handed down.

Who acts: many tales · What happens: be, appear, scribe, depart, find, hand down · To what, where: case, author, all

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 (many tales), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 case	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 case	cop
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 case	det
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 appear	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 appear	mark
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tales	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tales	amod
11	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 appear	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 contradictions	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 flagrant	advmod
14	flagrant	flagrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 contradictions	amod
15	contradictions	contradiction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tales	nmod
16	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 case	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 author	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 author	det
19	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 appear	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 scribe	cc
21	scribe	scribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 appear	conj
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 unwilling	cop
23	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 scribe	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 depart	mark
25	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 unwilling	xcomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 depart	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 that	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 depart	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 found	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 depart	advcl
33	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 found	xcomp
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 handed	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 case	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this case			tree rules
2	appear	present	many tales the flagrant contradictions	the author			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scribe	infinitive	many tales the flagrant contradictions not said here				tree rules
4	is	gerund	many tales the flagrant contradictions not said here			unwilling property	tree rules
5	depart	to-infinitive	many tales the flagrant contradictions not said here		all	from that	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from that=Initial_Location
6	find	past				which nsubj; society nsubj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	hand down	participle					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 29