Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 69
To all great nations their history presents itself under the aspect of poetry; a drama exciting pity and terror; an epic with unbroken continuity, and a wide range of thought, when the intellect is satisfied with coherence and unity, and the imagination by extent and diversity.
Who acts: history, intellect, imagination, extent · What happens: present, be, diversity, imagine · To what, where: history, great nations, aspect
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 (history, intellect, imagination, extent), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 nations | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 nations | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nations | amod |
| 4 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 presents | obl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 history | nmod:poss |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presents | nsubj |
| 7 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 presents | obj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 aspect | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 aspect | det |
| 11 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presents | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 poetry | case |
| 13 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aspect | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pity | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pity | det |
| 16 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pity | compound |
| 17 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pity | amod |
| 18 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aspect | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 terror | cc |
| 20 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pity | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 epic | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 epic | det |
| 23 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 presents | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 continuity | case |
| 25 | unbroken | unbroken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 continuity | amod |
| 26 | continuity | continuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 epic | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 range | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 range | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 range | det |
| 30 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 range | amod |
| 31 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 epic | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 thought | case |
| 33 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 range | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 satisfied | punct |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 satisfied | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 intellect | det |
| 37 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 satisfied | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 satisfied | cop |
| 39 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 range | parataxis |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 coherence | case |
| 41 | coherence | coherence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 satisfied | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 unity | cc |
| 43 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 coherence | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 diversity | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 diversity | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 imagination | det |
| 47 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 diversity | nsubj |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 extent | case |
| 49 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 imagination | nmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 diversity | cc |
| 51 | diversity | diversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presents | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 presents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present | nations's history | history | all great nations | the aspect of poetry and a drama exciting pity and terror | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to nation=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is | present | the intellect | with coherence and unity; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | diversity | the imagination by extent | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | imagine | extent | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: by=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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