Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 28
But they have not started into existence suddenly, like the gods of Rome, nor is their genealogy confined to a single generation like those of Greece.
Who acts: dells · What happens: not start, be, confine · To what, where: existence, genealogy, single generation
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 (dells), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 started | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 started | advmod |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 existence | case |
| 7 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 started | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gods | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 gods | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gods | det |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 started | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Rome | case |
| 14 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gods | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 genealogy | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 genealogy | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 genealogy | cop |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 genealogy | nmod:poss |
| 19 | genealogy | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 20 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 genealogy | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 generation | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 generation | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 generation | amod |
| 24 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 confined | obl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 those | case |
| 26 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 generation | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Greece | case |
| 28 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 those | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not start | present · perfect | dells = dell | existence | like the gods of Rome; suddenly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | present | dells's genealogy | dells = dell nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | confine | participle | dells's genealogy not said here | to a single generation like those of Greece | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to generation=Destination |
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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