Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 78

As Homer does not allude to writing, though all scholars agree that he lived in a lettered age, so the old bards do not allude to parchment and Roman characters, though the Irish epics, as distinguished from their component parts, reached their fixed state and their final development in times subsequent to the introduction of Christianity.

Who acts: Homer, scholars, old bards, bard · What happens: not allude, agree, live, letter, distinguish, reach · To what, where: lettered age, Irish epics, fixed state, Christianity

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 (Homer, scholars, old bards, bard), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 allude	mark
2	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 allude	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allude	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allude	advmod
5	allude	allude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 agree	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 writing	case
7	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allude	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 agree	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 agree	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 scholars	det
11	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 agree	nsubj
12	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 lived	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 agree	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 age	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 age	det
18	lettered	letter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 age	amod
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 allude	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	27 allude	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bards	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bards	amod
24	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 allude	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 allude	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 allude	advmod
27	allude	allude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 agree	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 parchment	case
29	parchment	parchment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 allude	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 characters	cc
31	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 characters	amod
32	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 parchment	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 epics	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 epics	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 epics	det
36	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 epics	amod
37	epics	epic	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 allude	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 distinguished	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 distinguished	mark
40	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 epics	acl
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 parts	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 parts	nmod:poss
43	component	component	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 parts	compound
44	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 distinguished	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 reached	punct
46	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 allude	conj
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 state	nmod:poss
48	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 state	amod
49	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 reached	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 development	cc
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 development	nmod:poss
52	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 development	amod
53	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 state	conj
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 times	case
55	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 reached	obl
56	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 reached	parataxis
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 introduction	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 introduction	det
59	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 subsequent	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 Christianity	case
61	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 introduction	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 agree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not allude	present · do-support	Homer			to writing	tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	present	all scholars				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live	past	Homer		in a lettered age		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location
4	letter	participle					vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not allude	present · do-support	the old bards			to parchment and Roman characters; the Irish epics conj	tree rules
6	distinguish	participle		the Irish epics not said here		from bard's component parts	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent from part=Co-Theme
7	reach	past	the old bards not said here	bard's fixed state and bard's final development	time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent state=Theme
8	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	develop		bard				nom development «act transitive»: poss=agent
10	introduce			Christianity			nom introduction «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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 78