Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 16

In the publications of the Irish Ossianic poetry we see what that poetry really was--rude, homely, plain-spoken, leagues removed from the nebulous sublimity of MacPherson.

Who acts: we, poetry · What happens: see, be, speak, remove, publish · To what, where: Irish Ossianic poetry, rude, publications, leagues, nebulous sublimity · 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: who acts (we, poetry), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 publications	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 publications	det
3	publications	publication	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spoken	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 poetry	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poetry	det
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poetry	amod
7	Ossianic	Ossianic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 poetry	compound
8	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 publications	nmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poetry	acl:relcl
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 was	obj
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 poetry	det
13	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 was	advmod
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 rude	punct
17	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spoken	nsubj:pass
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 homely	punct
19	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rude	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spoken	punct
21	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spoken	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 plain	punct
23	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leagues	punct
25	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spoken	parataxis
26	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 leagues	acl
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 sublimity	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sublimity	det
29	nebulous	nebulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sublimity	amod
30	sublimity	sublimity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 removed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 MacPherson	case
32	MacPherson	MacPherson	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sublimity	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	we	the Irish Ossianic poetry not said here			tree rules
2	be	past	that poetry			what obj	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	speak speech: other	participle · passive		rude	the publications of the Irish Ossianic poetry	leagues parataxis	tree rules
4	remove	participle		leagues not said here	the nebulous sublimity of MacPherson		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sublimity=Source
5	publish			the Irish Ossianic poetry			nom publication «communication transitive»: of=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 4, sentence 16