Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 1

If letters were unknown in those times, the example of Homer shows how unlikely the later poets would have been to outrage so violently the whole spirit of the heroic literature.

Who acts: letters, example · What happens: be, show, have, outrage, exemplify · To what, where: whole spirit, Homer

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letters, example), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 unknown	mark
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unknown	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unknown	cop
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shows	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 times	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 times	det
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unknown	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unknown	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 example	det
10	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shows	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Homer	case
12	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 example	nmod
13	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 unlikely	advmod
15	unlikely	unlikely	ADV	_	13 shows	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poets	det
17	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 poets	amod
18	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 would	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 unlikely	advcl
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 would	xcomp
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 have	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 outrage	mark
23	outrage	outrage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 been	xcomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 violently	advmod
25	violently	violently	ADV	_	28 spirit	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spirit	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spirit	amod
28	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 outrage	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 literature	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 literature	det
31	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 literature	amod
32	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spirit	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	letters		time	unknown property	tree rules
2	show	present	the example of Homer			unlikely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	infinitive	the example of Homer not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	outrage	to-infinitive	the example of Homer not said here	the whole spirit of the heroic literature			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spirit=Experiencer
5	exemplify			Homer			nom example «cognition 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 6, sentence 1

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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 1