Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 40
Between the huge physical entities of the Greek theogonists and the Olympian gods, there intervenes but a single generation.
What happens: intervene
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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 5 entities | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 entities | det |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 entities | amod |
| 4 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 entities | amod |
| 5 | entities | entity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 intervenes | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 theogonists | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 theogonists | det |
| 8 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 theogonists | amod |
| 9 | theogonists | theogonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entities | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gods | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 12 | Olympian | olympian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gods | amod |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 theogonists | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 entities | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 intervenes | expl |
| 16 | intervenes | intervene | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 generation | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 generation | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 generation | amod |
| 20 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intervenes | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 intervenes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intervene | present | there | a single generation | between the huge physical entities of the Greek theogonists and the Olympian gods | 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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