Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 12

The Ossianic tales and poems still told and sung by the Irish peasantry at the present day in the country of Ossian and Oscar, would be, if collected even now, quite as valuable, if not more so.

What happens: tell, sing, collect · To what, where: poems, Ossianic tales · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	3 tales	det
2	Ossianic	ossianic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tales	amod
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 collected	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 poems	cc
5	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tales	conj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 poems	acl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sung	cc
9	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 peasantry	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peasantry	det
12	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 peasantry	amod
13	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sung	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sung	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 country	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 country	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Ossian	case
22	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 country	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Oscar	cc
24	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ossian	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tales	punct
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 collected	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 collected	aux:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 collected	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 collected	mark
30	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 now	advmod
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 collected	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 valuable	punct
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 valuable	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 valuable	case
36	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 collected	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 so	punct
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 so	mark
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 more	advmod
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 so	advmod
41	so	so	ADV	_	30 collected	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle	poems not said here	still		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	participle		day	by the Irish peasantry	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by peasantry=Location
3	collect	would · passive	the Ossianic tales and poems	now		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 12