Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 66
For instance, the stream of Irish history must, for philosophical reasons, be no further traceable than to that point at which it issues from the enchanted land of the Tuatha De Danan.
Who acts: stream · What happens: be, issue, enchant · To what, where: enchanted land
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 (stream), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 instance | case |
| 2 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 traceable | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instance | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stream | det |
| 5 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 traceable | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 history | case |
| 7 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 history | amod |
| 8 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stream | nmod |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 traceable | aux |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reasons | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 reasons | case |
| 12 | philosophical | philosophical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reasons | amod |
| 13 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 traceable | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reasons | punct |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 traceable | cop |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 further | advmod |
| 17 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 traceable | advmod |
| 18 | traceable | traceable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 point | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 point | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 point | det |
| 22 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 traceable | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 26 issues | det |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 issues | nsubj |
| 26 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 point | nmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 land | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 land | det |
| 29 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 land | amod |
| 30 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 issues | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Danan | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Danan | det |
| 33 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Danan | compound |
| 34 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Tuatha | flat |
| 35 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 land | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 traceable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | the stream of Irish history | for instance; than that point; philosophical reasons nsubj; far, traceable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | issue | stream | the enchanted land of the Tuatha Danan | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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