Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 32
For all that the early Roman literature tells us of their origin, they may have been either self-created or eternal.
What happens: tell, create · To what, where: us, gods · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 literature | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 literature | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 literature | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 literature | det |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 literature | amod |
| 6 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 literature | amod |
| 7 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obl |
| 8 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tells | iobj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 origin | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 origin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 created | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 created | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 created | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 created | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 created | aux:pass |
| 18 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 created | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 created | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 self | punct |
| 21 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tells | parataxis |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 eternal | cc |
| 23 | eternal | eternal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 created | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | us | for the early Roman literature that; of gods's origin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | create | may · perfect · passive | gods = god | self compound; eternal conj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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