Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 49

The point fixed upon by the accurate and sceptical Tiherna as the starting-point of trustworthy Irish history, was one long subsequent to the floruerunt of the gods; and the age of Concobar Mac Nessa and his knights was more than two centuries later than that of Kimbay and the foundation of Emain Macha.

Who acts: point, age · What happens: fix, be, point · To what, where: point, one long subsequent, trustworthy Irish history

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 (point, age), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 point	det
2	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 subsequent	nsubj
3	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 point	acl
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Tiherna	case
5	by	by	ADP	_	10 Tiherna	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tiherna	det
7	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Tiherna	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sceptical	cc
9	sceptical	sceptical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 accurate	conj
10	Tiherna	Tiherna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fixed	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 point	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 point	det
13	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 point	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 starting	punct
15	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fixed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 history	case
17	trustworthy	trustworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 history	amod
18	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 history	amod
19	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 point	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 point	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 subsequent	cop
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 subsequent	nummod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 subsequent	amod
24	subsequent	subsequent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 floruerunt	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floruerunt	det
27	floruerunt	floruerunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 subsequent	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 gods	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gods	det
30	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 floruerunt	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 more	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 more	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 age	det
34	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 more	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Mac	case
36	Concobar	Concobar	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Mac	compound
37	Mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 age	nmod
38	Nessa	Nessa	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Mac	flat
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 knights	cc
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 knights	nmod:poss
41	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Mac	conj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 more	cop
43	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 subsequent	parataxis
44	than	than	ADP	_	46 centuries	case
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 centuries	nummod
46	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 later	obl
47	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 that	advmod
48	than	than	ADP	_	49 that	case
49	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 more	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 Kimbay	case
51	Kimbay	Kimbay	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 that	nmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 foundation	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 foundation	det
54	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 Kimbay	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 Emain	case
56	Emain	Emain	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 foundation	nmod
57	Macha	Macha	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Emain	flat
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 subsequent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fix	participle		the point not said here	upon the accurate Tiherna; as the starting point of trustworthy Irish history	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the point	one long subsequent	to the floruerunt of the gods	tree rules
3	is	past	the age of Concobar Mac and age's knights		than that of Kimbay and the foundation of Emain; more property	tree rules
4	point			trustworthy Irish history		nom point «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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 49