Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 20

Thus released from the curb of history, he gave free rein to the imagination, and in the conventional literary language of sublimity, gave full expression to the feelings that arose within him, as to him, pondering over those ballads, their gigantesque element developed into a greatness and solemnity, and their vagueness and indeterminateness into that misty immensity and weird obscurity which, as constituent factors in a poem, not as back-ground, form one of the elements of the false sublime.

Who acts: MacPherson, feelings · What happens: release, give, arise, ponder, develop, form · To what, where: curb, free rein, imagination, conventional literary language, full expression, MacPherson

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MacPherson, feelings), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 released	advmod
2	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 curb	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 curb	det
5	curb	curb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 released	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 history	case
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curb	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 released	conj
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rein	amod
12	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 imagination	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 imagination	det
15	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 language	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 language	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 language	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 language	det
20	conventional	conventional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 language	amod
21	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 language	amod
22	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 sublimity	case
24	sublimity	sublimity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 language	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 expression	amod
28	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 feelings	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 feelings	det
31	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 arose	nsubj
33	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 feelings	acl:relcl
34	within	within	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 arose	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 him	punct
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 him	case
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pondering	punct
41	pondering	ponder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 gave	advcl
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 ballads	case
43	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	44 ballads	det
44	ballads	ballad	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 pondering	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 element	punct
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 element	nmod:poss
47	gigantesque	gigantesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 element	amod
48	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ballads	appos
49	developed	develop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 element	acl
50	into	into	ADP	_	52 greatness	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 greatness	det
52	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 developed	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 solemnity	cc
54	solemnity	solemnity	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 greatness	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 vagueness	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 vagueness	cc
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 vagueness	nmod:poss
58	vagueness	vagueness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pondering	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 indeterminateness	cc
60	indeterminateness	indeterminateness	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 vagueness	conj
61	into	into	ADP	_	64 immensity	case
62	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	64 immensity	det
63	misty	misty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 immensity	amod
64	immensity	immensity	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pondering	obl
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 obscurity	cc
66	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 obscurity	amod
67	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 immensity	conj
68	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	72 factors	nsubj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 factors	punct
70	as	as	ADP	_	72 factors	case
71	constituent	constituent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 factors	amod
72	factors	factor	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 immensity	parataxis
73	in	in	ADP	_	75 poem	case
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 poem	det
75	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 factors	nmod
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 ground	punct
77	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	81 ground	advmod
78	as	as	ADP	_	81 ground	case
79	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 ground	compound
80	-	-	PUNCT	_	79 back	punct
81	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 poem	appos
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 form	punct
83	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 pondering	conj
84	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	83 form	obj
85	of	of	ADP	_	87 elements	case
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	87 elements	det
87	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	84 one	nmod
88	of	of	ADP	_	91 sublime	case
89	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	91 sublime	det
90	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	91 sublime	amod
91	sublime	sublime	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 elements	nmod
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 released	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	release	participle				the curb of history	thus property	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	give	past	MacPherson	free rein	the imagination	the conventional literary language of sublimity		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rein=Theme to imagination=Recipient
3	give	past	MacPherson not said here	full expression	MacPherson		to the feelings	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient expression=Theme
4	arise	past	the feelings				within MacPherson	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ponder	gerund	MacPherson not said here	ballads's vagueness and indeterminateness		that ballads	into that misty immensity as constituent factors that misty immensity as constituent factors that misty immensity in a poem and weird obscurity in a poem and weird obscurity	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	develop	participle		ballads's gigantesque element not said here		a greatness and solemnity		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into greatness=Product
7	form	infinitive	MacPherson not said here	one of the elements of the false sublime				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 20