Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 45
Unable to ignore or excide what filled so much of the imagination of the country, and unable, as Christians, to believe in the divinity of the Tuatha De Danan and their predecessors, they rationalised all the pre-Milesian record.
Who acts: Christians · What happens: ignore, excide, fill, believe, rationalis, imagine · To what, where: much, divinity, pre-Milesian record, country
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 (Christians), 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 | Unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 ignore | mark |
| 3 | ignore | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Unable | xcomp |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 excide | cc |
| 5 | excide | excide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ignore | conj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 excide | ccomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 imagination | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 imagination | det |
| 12 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 much | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 imagination | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unable | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 unable | cc |
| 18 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Unable | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 believe | mark |
| 21 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 believe | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 believe | mark |
| 24 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 unable | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 divinity | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 divinity | det |
| 27 | divinity | divinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 believe | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Danan | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Danan | det |
| 30 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Danan | compound |
| 31 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Tuatha | flat |
| 32 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 divinity | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 predecessors | cc |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 predecessors | nmod:poss |
| 35 | predecessors | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Danan | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rationalised | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 rationalised | nsubj |
| 38 | rationalised | rationalis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 believe | conj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 record | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 record | det |
| 41 | pre-Milesian | pre-milesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 record | amod |
| 42 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rationalised | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | to-infinitive | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | excide | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fill | past | much of the imagination of the country | what nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | Christians | the divinity of the Tuatha Danan and Christians's predecessors | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | rationalis | past | Christians = christian | all pre-Milesian record | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | imagine | the country | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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