Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 75
The bards relating the lives and deeds of the ancient heroes, would have ascribed to their times parchment books and the Roman characters, not stone and wood, and the Ogham.
Who acts: bards · What happens: relate, ascribe · To what, where: lives, bards
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 (bards), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bards | det |
| 2 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ascribed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 bards | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lives | det |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 relating | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 deeds | cc |
| 7 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lives | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heroes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heroes | det |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heroes | amod |
| 11 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 deeds | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bards | punct |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ascribed | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ascribed | aux |
| 15 | ascribed | ascribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 books | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 books | nmod:poss |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 parchment | compound |
| 19 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 books | compound |
| 20 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ascribed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 characters | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 characters | det |
| 23 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 characters | amod |
| 24 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 books | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stone | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 stone | advmod |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 characters | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wood | cc |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stone | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ogham | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Ogham | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Ogham | det |
| 33 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ascribed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ascribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | gerund | the bards not said here | the lives and deeds of the ancient heroes | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ascribe | would · perfect · passive | the bards | to bard's parchment books and the Roman characters; the Ogham obl | tree rules |
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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