Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 75
The bardic literature, profoundly poetic though it be, in the eyes of our ancestors was history, and never was anything else.
Who acts: bardic literature · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: history, anything
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 (bardic literature), 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 | 3 literature | det |
| 2 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 literature | amod |
| 3 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 history | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 poetic | punct |
| 5 | profoundly | profoundly | ADV | _ | 6 poetic | advmod |
| 6 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 literature | amod |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 be | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 be | nsubj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 poetic | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 literature | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ancestors | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eyes | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 history | cop |
| 18 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 anything | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 anything | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 anything | advmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 anything | cop |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 history | conj |
| 24 | else | else | ADV | _ | 23 anything | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 history | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bardic literature and the eyes of our ancestors | history | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | the bardic literature and the eyes of our ancestors not said here | anything | else property | tree rules |
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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