Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 64

Hence the orderly sequence of the cyclic literature; hence the strong confining banks between which the torrent of song rolls down through those centuries in which the bardic imagination reached its height.

Who acts: torrent, bardic imagination · What happens: confine, roll down, reach · To what, where: strong confining banks, height, orderly 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: who acts (torrent, bardic imagination), 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	Hence	hence	ADV	_	4 sequence	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sequence	det
3	orderly	orderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sequence	amod
4	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 literature	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 literature	det
7	cyclic	cyclic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 literature	amod
8	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sequence	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 banks	punct
10	hence	hence	ADV	_	14 banks	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 banks	det
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 banks	amod
13	confining	confine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 banks	amod
14	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sequence	conj
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 rolls	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 torrent	det
18	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rolls	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 song	case
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 torrent	nmod
21	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 banks	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 rolls	compound:prt
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 centuries	case
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 centuries	det
25	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rolls	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 reached	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 imagination	det
29	bardic	bardic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 imagination	amod
30	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reached	nsubj
31	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 centuries	acl:relcl
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 height	nmod:poss
33	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reached	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sequence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	gerund						vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	roll down	present	the torrent of song		the strong confining banks	century		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between which=Trajectory
3	reach	past	the bardic imagination	imagination's height			in that centuries	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=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 64