Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 36
To the casual reader of the bardic literature the preservation of an ordered historical sequence, amidst that riotous wealth of imaginative energy, may appear an impossibility.
What happens: appear, preserve · To what, where: impossibility, ordered historical sequence
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: 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 reader | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reader | det |
| 3 | casual | casual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reader | amod |
| 4 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appear | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 literature | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 literature | det |
| 7 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 literature | amod |
| 8 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reader | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 preservation | det |
| 10 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 literature | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sequence | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sequence | det |
| 13 | ordered | ordered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sequence | amod |
| 14 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sequence | amod |
| 15 | sequence | sequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 preservation | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wealth | punct |
| 17 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 20 wealth | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 wealth | det |
| 19 | riotous | riotous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wealth | amod |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sequence | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 energy | case |
| 22 | imaginative | imaginative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 energy | amod |
| 23 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wealth | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reader | punct |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 appear | aux |
| 26 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 impossibility | det |
| 28 | impossibility | impossibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appear | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | may | a impossibility | to the casual reader of the bardic literature | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location impossibility=Theme | ||||
| 2 | preserve | a ordered historical sequence and that riotous wealth of imaginative energy | nom preservation «act 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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