Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 39

_A fortiori_, the more ancient bards, those of the ruder ethnic times, would have clung still closer to authority, deriving all their imaginative representations from preceding minstrels.

Who acts: bards · What happens: cling, derive, precede, represent · To what, where: fortiori, imaginative representations, minstrels

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 (bards), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 fortiori	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fortiori	det
3	fortiori	fortiori	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clung	obl
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 fortiori	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bards	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bards	det
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 ancient	advmod
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bards	amod
9	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fortiori	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 those	punct
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 bards	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 times	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 times	det
14	ruder	rude	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 times	amod
15	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 times	amod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 those	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fortiori	punct
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 clung	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 clung	aux
20	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 closer	advmod
22	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 clung	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 authority	case
24	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 closer	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 deriving	punct
26	deriving	derive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 clung	advcl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 representations	det:predet
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 representations	nmod:poss
29	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 representations	amod
30	representations	representation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 deriving	obj
31	from	from	SCONJ	_	32 preceding	mark
32	preceding	precede	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 deriving	advcl
33	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 preceding	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cling	would · perfect		a fortiori and the ancient bards	close property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	derive	gerund		bards's imaginative representations		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location representation=Theme
3	precede	gerund		minstrels		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme minstrel=Co-Theme
4	represent		bards = bard			nom representation «cognition transitive»: poss=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 39

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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 39