Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 18
Be it remembered, that the poem does not purport to be a collection of the scattered fragments of a cycle, but an original composition, then actually imagined and written.
Who acts: poem · What happens: remember, not purport, be, imagine, write · To what, where: style, collection, original composition
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 (poem), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remembered | aux:pass |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 purport | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 purport | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poem | det |
| 7 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 purport | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 purport | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 purport | advmod |
| 10 | purport | purport | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 collection | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 collection | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 collection | det |
| 14 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 purport | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fragments | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fragments | det |
| 17 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 18 fragments | amod |
| 18 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 collection | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cycle | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cycle | det |
| 21 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fragments | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 composition | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 composition | cc |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 composition | det |
| 25 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 composition | amod |
| 26 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 imagined | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 imagined | advmod |
| 29 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 30 imagined | advmod |
| 30 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 composition | acl:relcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 written | cc |
| 32 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 imagined | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | infinitive · passive | style | a original composition obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not purport | present · do-support | the poem | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the poem not said here | a collection | of the scattered fragments of a cycle | tree rules | |||
| 4 | imagine | participle | a original composition not said here | then | actually property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 5 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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