Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 89
This enormous and seemingly chaotic mass of literature is found at all times to possess an inner harmony, a consistency and logical unity, to be apprehended only by careful study.
Who acts: careful study · What happens: find, possess, apprehend · To what, where: enormous mass, inner harmony · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (careful study), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 mass | det |
| 2 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mass | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chaotic | cc |
| 4 | seemingly | seemingly | ADV | _ | 5 chaotic | advmod |
| 5 | chaotic | chaotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 enormous | conj |
| 6 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 literature | case |
| 8 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mass | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 times | det |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 possess | mark |
| 15 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 found | ccomp |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 harmony | det |
| 17 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 harmony | amod |
| 18 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 possess | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 consistency | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 consistency | det |
| 21 | consistency | consistency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 harmony | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 unity | cc |
| 23 | logical | logical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 unity | amod |
| 24 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 consistency | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 apprehended | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 apprehended | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 apprehended | aux:pass |
| 28 | apprehended | apprehend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 possess | advcl |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 study | advmod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 study | case |
| 31 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 study | amod |
| 32 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 apprehended | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | this enormous mass of literature | time | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | possess | to-infinitive | a inner harmony | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot harmony=Theme | |||||
| 3 | apprehend | to-infinitive · passive | careful study | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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