Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 63

Of many minor events there are more than one version, and many scenes and assertions which he may think of importance would yet, by being related, cause inconsistency and contradiction.

Who acts: one version, many scenes · What happens: be, think, cause · To what, where: inconsistency

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 (one version, many scenes), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 events	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 events	amod
3	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 events	amod
4	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 are	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 are	expl
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 one	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 version	nummod
10	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 are	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 think	cc
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 scenes	amod
14	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 think	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 assertions	cc
16	assertions	assertion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scenes	conj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 think	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 think	aux
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 are	parataxis
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 would	mark
22	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 would	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 think	ccomp
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 would	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 related	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 related	case
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 related	cop
28	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 think	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cause	punct
30	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 think	parataxis
31	inconsistency	inconsistency	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cause	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 contradiction	cc
33	contradiction	contradiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 inconsistency	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	one version		there	of many minor events	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	may	many scenes and assertions			which obj; version nsubj	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
3	is	gerund	many scenes and assertions not said here			related property	tree rules
4	cause	infinitive		inconsistency and contradiction			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition inconsistency=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 63