Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 76
As history it was originally composed, and as history bound in the chains of metre, that it might not be lost or dissipated passing through the minds of men, and as history it was translated into prose and committed to parchment.
Who acts: prose · What happens: compose, bind, not lose, dissipate, pass, translate · To what, where: history, chains, minds, parchment, men
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 (prose), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 history | case |
| 2 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 composed | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 composed | aux:pass |
| 5 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 6 composed | advmod |
| 6 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bound | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bound | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 history | case |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bound | obl |
| 11 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 composed | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chains | det |
| 14 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bound | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 metre | case |
| 16 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chains | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 lost | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 lost | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bound | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 dissipated | cc |
| 25 | dissipated | dissipate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 lost | conj |
| 26 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 dissipated | advcl |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 minds | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 minds | det |
| 29 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 passing | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 men | case |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 minds | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 translated | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 translated | cc |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 history | case |
| 35 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 translated | obl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 translated | aux:pass |
| 38 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 composed | parataxis |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 prose | case |
| 40 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 translated | obl:agent |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 committed | cc |
| 42 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 translated | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 parchment | case |
| 44 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 committed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | past · passive | history | as history; originally property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as history=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bind | participle | the chains of metre | as history | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not lose | might · passive | history | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dissipate | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | pass | gerund | the minds of men | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | |||||
| 6 | translate | past · passive | prose | history | as history | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 7 | commit | participle | prose not said here | parchment | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to parchment=Destination | ||||
| 8 | mind | men | nom mind «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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