Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 42
So much may indeed be said for the more ancient tales, but the Ultonian cycle deals with events well within the historic period.
Who acts: Ultonian cycle · What happens: say, deal · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ultonian cycle), 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 said | advmod |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tales | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 ancient | advmod |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deals | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 deals | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cycle | det |
| 15 | Ultonian | Ultonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cycle | compound |
| 16 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deals | nsubj |
| 17 | deals | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 events | case |
| 19 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 deals | obl |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 deals | advmod |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 24 period | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 period | det |
| 23 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 period | amod |
| 24 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deals | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | may · passive | for the ancient tales; indeed property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 2 | deal | present | the Ultonian cycle | with events; within the historic period; well property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with event=Theme |
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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