Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 13
Truer to the antique these latter are, for in them the cycles are not blended.
What happens: be, not blend · To what, where: cycles
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 | Truer | true | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 antique | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 antique | det |
| 4 | antique | antique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Truer | obl |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 latter | nsubj |
| 6 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 antique | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Truer | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blended | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 blended | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 blended | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cycles | det |
| 13 | cycles | cycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blended | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 blended | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 blended | advmod |
| 16 | blended | blend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Truer | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Truer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | to the antique; true property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not blend | present · passive | the cycles | in poems = poem | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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