Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 16
The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste.
What happens: refine, suit · To what, where: ancient bardic lore, new poetic taste
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: 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 | 4 lore | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lore | amod |
| 3 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lore | amod |
| 4 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 refined | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 traditions | cc |
| 6 | primaeval | primaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 traditions | compound |
| 7 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lore | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 refined | aux:pass |
| 9 | refined | refine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 suit | mark |
| 11 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 refined | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 taste | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 taste | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sensitive | cc |
| 15 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 new | conj |
| 16 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 taste | amod |
| 17 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suit | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 refined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refine | past · passive | the ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suit | to-infinitive | the new poetic taste | 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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