Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 31
All have been forgotten for the sake of a vague representation of the more sublime aspects of the cycle, and the meretricious seductions of a form of composition easy to write and easy to read, and to which the unwary or unwise often award praise to which it has no claim.
Who acts: cycle · What happens: forget, write, read, award, have, represent · To what, where: All, unwary, claim, more sublime aspects, form, composition
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 (cycle), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sake | det |
| 7 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgotten | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 representation | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 representation | det |
| 10 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 representation | amod |
| 11 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sake | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 aspects | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 aspects | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 aspects | amod |
| 15 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 aspects | amod |
| 16 | aspects | aspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 representation | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cycle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cycle | det |
| 19 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 aspects | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 easy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 easy | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seductions | det |
| 23 | meretricious | meretricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 seductions | amod |
| 24 | seductions | seduction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 easy | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 form | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 form | det |
| 27 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seductions | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 composition | case |
| 29 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 form | nmod |
| 30 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forgotten | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 write | mark |
| 32 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 easy | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 easy | cc |
| 34 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 easy | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 read | mark |
| 36 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 easy | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 award | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 award | cc |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 award | obl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 award | det |
| 42 | unwary | unwary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 award | obl |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 unwise | cc |
| 44 | unwise | unwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 unwary | conj |
| 45 | often | often | ADV | _ | 46 award | advmod |
| 46 | award | award | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | conj |
| 47 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 award | obj |
| 48 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 51 has | mark |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 has | obj |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 has | nsubj |
| 51 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 award | advcl |
| 52 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 claim | det |
| 53 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 has | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect · passive | All | for the sake of a vague representation of the more sublime aspects of the cycle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | to-infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | award | present | unwary | which obl; praise obj; often property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent praise=Theme to which=Goal | ||||
| 5 | have | present | cycle | no claim | which obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | represent | the more sublime aspects of the cycle | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | seduce | a form of composition | nom seduction «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | form | composition | nom form «communication 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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