Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 50
The floruit of Cuculain, therefore, falls completely within the historical penumbra, and the more carefully the enormous, and in the main mutually consistent and self-supporting, historical remains dealing with this period are studied, the more will this be believed.
Who acts: floruit, main consistent historical remains · What happens: fall, deal, study, believe · To what, where: main consistent historical remains, this
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 (floruit, main consistent historical remains), 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 floruit | det |
| 2 | floruit | floruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cuculain | case |
| 4 | Cuculain | Cuculain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 floruit | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 floruit | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 falls | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 therefore | punct |
| 8 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 8 falls | advmod |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 penumbra | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 penumbra | det |
| 12 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 penumbra | amod |
| 13 | penumbra | penumbra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 falls | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 enormous | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 enormous | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 more | det |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 enormous | advmod |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 20 enormous | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 enormous | det |
| 20 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 falls | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 studied | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 studied | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 remains | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 remains | det |
| 25 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 remains | amod |
| 26 | mutually | mutually | ADV | _ | 27 consistent | advmod |
| 27 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 remains | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 supporting | cc |
| 29 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 supporting | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 self | punct |
| 31 | supporting | supporting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 consistent | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 consistent | punct |
| 33 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 remains | amod |
| 34 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 40 studied | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 remains | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 period | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 period | det |
| 38 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dealing | obl |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 studied | aux:pass |
| 40 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 falls | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 more | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 more | det |
| 43 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 47 believed | advmod |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 believed | aux |
| 45 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 believed | aux:pass |
| 47 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 studied | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 falls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | the floruit of Cuculain | within the historical penumbra; completely, therefore property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deal | gerund | the main consistent historical remains not said here | with this period | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with period=Theme | ||||
| 3 | study | present · passive | the main consistent historical remains | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | believe | future · passive | this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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