Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 30
The Tan-bo-Cooalney was therefore _transcribed_ by an ancient penman to the parchment of a still existing manuscript, in the century before that in which the German epic is presumed, from style only, and in the opinion of Germans, to have been _composed_.
Who acts: Tan · What happens: transcribe, exist, presume, be, compose, opine · To what, where: opinion, that, style, _, Germans
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 (Tan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tan | det |
| 2 | Tan | Tan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 transcribed | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tan | punct |
| 4 | bo | bo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tan | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cooalney | punct |
| 6 | Cooalney | Cooalney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tan | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 transcribed | aux |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 10 transcribed | advmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 transcribed | punct |
| 10 | transcribed | transcribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 transcribed | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 penman | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 penman | det |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 penman | amod |
| 15 | penman | penman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 transcribed | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 parchment | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 parchment | det |
| 18 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 penman | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 century | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 century | det |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 existing | advmod |
| 22 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 century | csubj |
| 23 | manuscript | manuscript | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 century | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 century | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 century | det |
| 27 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 parchment | nmod |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 presumed | mark |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 presumed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 presumed | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 epic | det |
| 33 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 epic | amod |
| 34 | epic | epic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 presumed | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 presumed | aux:pass |
| 36 | presumed | presume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 transcribed | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 style | punct |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 style | case |
| 39 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 presumed | obl |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 style | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 opinion | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 opinion | cc |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 opinion | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 opinion | det |
| 45 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 transcribed | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Germans | case |
| 47 | Germans | german | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 opinion | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 _ | punct |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 _ | mark |
| 50 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 _ | aux |
| 51 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 52 _ | cop |
| 52 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 opinion | conj |
| 53 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 _ | acl |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 53 composed | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 transcribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transcribe | past · passive | the Tan and Cooalney | the opinion of Germans and _ | by a ancient penman to the parchment of a manuscript century; therefore property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by penman=Destination | |||
| 2 | exist | gerund | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | presume | present · passive | that | style | which obl; the German epic nsubj:pass | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | the Tan and Cooalney not said here | _ | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | compose | participle | _ not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | opine | Germans | nom opinion «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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