Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 67

At the limit at which the gods appear, men and history must disappear; while on the other hand, the statement of Tiherna, that the foundation of Emain Alacha by Kimbay is the first certain date in Irish history, renders it undesirable to attach more historical reality of characters, adorning the ages prior to B.C.

Who acts: gods, men, foundation, statement · What happens: appear, disappear, be, render, attach, adorn · To what, where: men, limit, first certain date, Irish history, history, other hand

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 (gods, men, foundation, statement), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 limit	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 limit	det
3	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appear	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 appear	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gods	det
7	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appear	nsubj
8	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 men	punct
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appear	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 history	cc
12	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	conj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 disappear	aux
14	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 men	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 renders	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 renders	mark
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 hand	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hand	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 renders	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hand	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 statement	det
23	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 renders	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Tiherna	case
25	Tiherna	Tiherna	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 statement	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 date	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 date	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 foundation	det
29	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 date	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Emain	case
31	Emain	Emain	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 foundation	nmod
32	Alacha	Alacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Emain	flat
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 Kimbay	case
34	Kimbay	Kimbay	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Emain	nmod
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 date	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 date	det
37	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 date	amod
38	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 date	amod
39	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 statement	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 history	case
41	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 history	amod
42	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 date	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 statement	punct
44	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 appear	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 renders	obj
46	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 renders	xcomp
47	to	to	PART	_	48 attach	mark
48	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 undesirable	xcomp
49	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 historical	advmod
50	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 reality	amod
51	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 attach	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 characters	case
53	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 reality	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 adorning	punct
55	adorning	adorn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 attach	advcl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 ages	det
57	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 adorning	obj
58	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	60 B.C	case
59	to	to	ADP	_	58 prior	fixed
60	B.C	B.C	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 adorning	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	the gods	men and history	the limit	which obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
2	disappear	must	men and history not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	the foundation of Emain by Kimbay	the first certain date	Irish history		tree rules
4	render	present	the statement of Tiherna and the first certain date	history	the other hand	undesirable property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	attach	to-infinitive	the statement of Tiherna and the first certain date not said here	historical reality of characters			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reality=Patient
6	adorn	gerund	the statement of Tiherna and the first certain date not said here	the ages		prior B.C	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme age=Destination
7	state			Tiherna			nom statement «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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 67