Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 10

There are two compositions which affect an interest comparable to that which Ireland claims for her bardic literature, One is the Ossian of MacPherson, the other the Nibelungen Lied.

Who acts: two compositions, Ireland, One · What happens: be, affect, claim · To what, where: interest, Ossian

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two compositions, Ireland, One), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 compositions	nummod
4	compositions	composition	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 affect	nsubj
6	affect	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compositions	acl:relcl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 interest	det
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 affect	obj
9	comparable	comparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 interest	amod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 comparable	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 claims	obj
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 claims	nsubj
14	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 interest	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 literature	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 literature	nmod:poss
17	bardic	bardic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 literature	amod
18	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 claims	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Ossian	punct
20	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 Ossian	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Ossian	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Ossian	det
23	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 literature	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 MacPherson	case
25	MacPherson	MacPherson	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ossian	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Lied	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Lied	nsubj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Lied	det
30	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Lied	compound
31	Lied	Lied	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ossian	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	two compositions		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	affect	present	two compositions	a interest			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus interest=Experiencer
3	claim speech: other	present	Ireland	a interest		for Ireland's bardic literature	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	is a	present	One	the Ossian and the Nibelungen Lied		of MacPherson; the Nibelungen Lied conj	tree rules

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 4, sentence 10

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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 10