Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 29
Behind them extends a long line of ancestors, and a history reaching into the remotest depths of the past.
Who acts: dells, history · What happens: extend, reach · To what, where: long line, remotest depths
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, 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 extends | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 extends | nsubj |
| 3 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 line | amod |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 extends | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ancestors | case |
| 8 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 line | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 history | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 history | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 history | det |
| 12 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 extends | obl |
| 13 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 history | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 depths | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 depths | det |
| 16 | remotest | remote | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 depths | amod |
| 17 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reaching | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 past | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 past | det |
| 20 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 depths | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 extends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | present | dells = dell | a long line of ancestors | a history obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent line=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | gerund | a history not said here | the remotest depths of the past | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into depth=Path |
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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