Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 12
Without pausing to enquire into the reasonableness of the date, it will suffice now to state that at this point the bardic history of Ireland cleaves asunder into two great divisions--the mythological or divine on the one hand, and the historical or heroic-historical on the other.
Who acts: date, bardic history · What happens: pause, enquire, suffice, state, cleave · To what, where: reasonableness, asunder, point
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 (date, bardic history), 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 pausing | mark |
| 2 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 suffice | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 enquire | mark |
| 4 | enquire | enquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pausing | xcomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 reasonableness | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reasonableness | det |
| 7 | reasonableness | reasonableness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enquire | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 date | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 date | det |
| 10 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reasonableness | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pausing | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 suffice | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffice | aux |
| 14 | suffice | suffice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 suffice | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 state | mark |
| 17 | state | state | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 suffice | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 cleaves | mark |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 point | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 point | det |
| 21 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cleaves | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 history | det |
| 23 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 history | amod |
| 24 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cleaves | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Ireland | case |
| 26 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 history | nmod |
| 27 | cleaves | cleave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 state | advcl |
| 28 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cleaves | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 divisions | case |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 divisions | nummod |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 divisions | amod |
| 32 | divisions | division | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 cleaves | obl |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 mythological | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mythological | det |
| 35 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 divisions | amod |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 divine | cc |
| 37 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mythological | conj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 hand | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 hand | det |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 hand | nummod |
| 41 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 divine | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 historical | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 historical | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 historical | det |
| 45 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 historical | amod |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 heroic | cc |
| 47 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 historical | conj |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 historical | punct |
| 49 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mythological | conj |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 other | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 other | det |
| 52 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 historical | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 suffice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | gerund | date not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enquire speech: other | to-infinitive | date not said here | the reasonableness of the date | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | suffice | future | date | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | state speech: other | to-infinitive | date not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cleave | present | the bardic history of Ireland | asunder | this point | into two great divisions result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient into division=Result |
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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