Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 74
Of poetry, as distinguised from metrical composition, these ancient bards knew little.
What happens: distinguis, know · To what, where: poetry, metrical composition, little
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 poetry | case |
| 2 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 distinguised | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 distinguised | mark |
| 5 | distinguised | distinguis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 poetry | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 composition | case |
| 7 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 composition | amod |
| 8 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distinguised | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bards | punct |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 bards | det |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bards | amod |
| 12 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 composition | conj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knew | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distinguis | participle | poetry not said here | metrical composition and this ancient bards | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | little | of poetry | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |
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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