Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 17

With regard to the other, the Germans, who naturally desire to refer its composition to as remote a date as possible, and who arguing from no scientific data, but only style, ascribe the authorship of the Nibelungen to a poet living in the latter part of the twelfth century.

Who acts: Germans, style, poet · What happens: desire, refer, remote, argue, ascribe, live · To what, where: composition, date, scientific data, authorship, latter part

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 (Germans, style, poet), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 regard	case
2	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desire	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 other	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 other	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 regard	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 regard	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Germans	det
8	Germans	German	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 desire	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 desire	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 desire	nsubj
11	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	12 desire	advmod
12	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 refer	mark
14	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 desire	xcomp
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 composition	nmod:poss
16	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 refer	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 remote	mark
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 remote	mark
19	remote	remote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 refer	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 date	det
21	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remote	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 possible	mark
23	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 remote	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arguing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 arguing	cc
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 arguing	nsubj
27	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 desire	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 data	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 data	det
30	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 data	amod
31	data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arguing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ascribe	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 ascribe	cc
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 style	advmod
35	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ascribe	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 style	punct
37	ascribe	ascribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 desire	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 authorship	det
39	authorship	authorship	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ascribe	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 Nibelungen	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Nibelungen	det
42	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 authorship	nmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 poet	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 poet	det
45	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ascribe	obl
46	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 poet	acl
47	in	in	ADP	_	50 part	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 part	det
49	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 part	amod
50	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 living	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 century	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 century	det
53	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 century	amod
54	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 part	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	present	the Germans			with regard to the other; who nsubj; naturally property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	refer not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Germans not said here	regard's composition			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent composition=Theme
3	remote	to-infinitive	the Germans not said here	a date			tree rules
4	argue speech: disagree	gerund			no scientific data	who nsubj	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ascribe	infinitive	style	the authorship of the Nibelungen		to a poet	tree rules
6	live	gerund	a poet not said here		the latter part of the twelfth century		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location

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 17