Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 51
The minuteness, accuracy, extent, and verisimilitude of the literature, chronicles, pedigrees, &c., relating to this period, will cause the student to wonder more and more as he examines and collates, seeing the marvellous self-consistency and consentaneity of such a mass of varied recorded matter.
Who acts: minuteness, student, period · What happens: relate, cause, wonder, examine, collate, see · To what, where: student, marvellous self consistency
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 (minuteness, student, period), 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 minuteness | det |
| 2 | minuteness | minuteness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 accuracy | punct |
| 4 | accuracy | accuracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 minuteness | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 extent | punct |
| 6 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 minuteness | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 verisimilitude | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 verisimilitude | cc |
| 9 | verisimilitude | verisimilitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 minuteness | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 literature | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 literature | det |
| 12 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 verisimilitude | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chronicles | punct |
| 14 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 minuteness | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pedigrees | punct |
| 16 | pedigrees | pedigree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chronicles | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 c. | punct |
| 18 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 19 c. | cc |
| 19 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 minuteness | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 relating | punct |
| 21 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 minuteness | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 period | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 period | det |
| 24 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 relating | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 minuteness | punct |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 cause | aux |
| 27 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 student | det |
| 29 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cause | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 wonder | mark |
| 31 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 cause | xcomp |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 wonder | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 more | cc |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 more | conj |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 examines | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 examines | nsubj |
| 37 | examines | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 wonder | advcl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 collates | cc |
| 39 | collates | collate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 examines | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 seeing | punct |
| 41 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 collates | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 consistency | det |
| 43 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 consistency | amod |
| 44 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 consistency | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 self | punct |
| 46 | consistency | consistency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seeing | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 consentaneity | cc |
| 48 | consentaneity | consentaneity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 consistency | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 mass | case |
| 50 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 52 mass | det:predet |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 mass | det |
| 52 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 consistency | nmod |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 matter | case |
| 54 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 matter | amod |
| 55 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 matter | amod |
| 56 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 mass | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | gerund | the minuteness and accuracy and extent and verisimilitude of the literature and chronicles and pedigrees & c. not said here | to this period | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to period=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | future | the minuteness and accuracy and extent and verisimilitude of the literature and chronicles and pedigrees & c. | the student | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | the student not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | examine | present | period | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | collate | present | period not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | see | gerund | period not said here | the marvellous self consistency of such mass of varied recorded matter and consentaneity | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consistency=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | record | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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