Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 22

_ The poem is not true, even to the leading features of the late period of history in which it is placed, if it have any habitat in the world of history at all.

Who acts: poem, history · What happens: not be, lead, place, have, feature · To what, where: history, late period, habitat, world

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, history), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 poem	det
3	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 true	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 features	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 features	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 features	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 features	det
11	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 features	amod
12	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 true	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 period	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 period	det
15	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 period	amod
16	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 features	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 history	case
18	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 period	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 placed	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 placed	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 placed	aux:pass
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 period	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 placed	conj
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 habitat	det
29	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 habitat	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 history	case
34	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 world	nmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 habitat	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the poem			the leading features of the late period of history parataxis; true property	tree rules
2	lead	gerund					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	place	present · passive		history	the late period of history		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination
4	have a condition, not said to happen	present	history	any habitat	the world of history	at all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Patient
5	feature			the late period of history			nom feature «cognition 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 22