Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 44
What swells out the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions is the history of the gods and giants rationalised by mediaeval historians.
Who acts: Irish chronicles · What happens: swell out, be, rationalis · To what, where: history, gods
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 (Irish chronicles), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 swells | nsubj |
| 2 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 swells | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chronicles | det |
| 5 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chronicles | amod |
| 6 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 history | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dimensions | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dimensions | amod |
| 9 | portentous | portentous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dimensions | amod |
| 10 | dimensions | dimension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chronicles | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 history | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 history | det |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swells | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gods | det |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 history | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 giants | cc |
| 18 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gods | conj |
| 19 | rationalised | rationalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gods | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 historians | case |
| 21 | mediaeval | mediaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 historians | compound |
| 22 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rationalised | obl:agent |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell out | present | What nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions | the history | of the gods and giants | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rationalis | participle | the gods and giants not said here | mediaeval historians obl:agent | 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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