Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 69

The story seems to progress too much in the air, too little in time and space, and seems to be more of the nature of legend and romance than of actual historic fact seen through an imaginative medium.

Who acts: story · What happens: seem, be, see · To what, where: progress, actual historic fact, imaginative medium

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 (story), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 progress	mark
5	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 progress	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 much	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 little	punct
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 little	advmod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 progress	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 little	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 space	cc
17	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seems	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seems	cc
20	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seems	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 more	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 more	cop
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 seems	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 nature	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nature	det
26	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 more	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 legend	case
28	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nature	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 romance	cc
30	romance	romance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 legend	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	35 fact	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 fact	case
33	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fact	amod
34	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fact	amod
35	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 more	obl
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 fact	acl
37	through	through	ADP	_	40 medium	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 medium	det
39	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 medium	amod
40	medium	medium	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seen	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the story	progress much in the air			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	seem	present	the story not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive				of the nature of legend and romance; than actual historic fact; more property	tree rules
4	see	participle		actual historic fact not said here	a imaginative medium		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 69