Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 47

The extent, diversity, and populousness of the Irish mythological cycles, the history of the Irish gods, and the gradual growth of that mythology of which the Tuatha De Danan, i.e., the gods of the historic period, were the final development, can only be rightly apprehended by one who reads the bardic literature as it deals with this subject.

Who acts: Tuatha Danan, history, mythology · What happens: be, apprehend, read, deal, grow · To what, where: final development, bardic literature, extent

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 (Tuatha Danan, history, mythology), 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	2 extent	det
2	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 diversity	punct
4	diversity	diversity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 extent	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 populousness	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 populousness	cc
7	populousness	populousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 extent	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 cycles	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cycles	det
10	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cycles	amod
11	mythological	mythological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cycles	amod
12	cycles	cycle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 populousness	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 history	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 history	det
15	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cycles	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 gods	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gods	det
18	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gods	amod
19	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 history	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 growth	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 growth	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 growth	det
23	gradual	gradual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 growth	amod
24	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 extent	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 mythology	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 mythology	det
27	mythology	mythology	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 growth	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 development	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Danan	det
31	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Danan	compound
32	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Tuatha	flat
33	Danan	Danan	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 development	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 i.e.	punct
35	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	33 Danan	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gods	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gods	det
38	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Danan	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 period	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 period	det
41	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 period	amod
42	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gods	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Danan	punct
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 development	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 development	det
46	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 development	amod
47	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mythology	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 apprehended	punct
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 apprehended	aux
50	only	only	ADV	_	53 apprehended	advmod
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 apprehended	aux:pass
52	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	53 apprehended	advmod
53	apprehended	apprehend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 development	conj
54	by	by	ADP	_	55 one	case
55	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 apprehended	obl
56	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 reads	nsubj
57	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 one	acl:relcl
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 literature	det
59	bardic	bardic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 literature	amod
60	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 reads	obj
61	as	as	SCONJ	_	63 deals	mark
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 deals	nsubj
63	deals	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 reads	advcl
64	with	with	ADP	_	66 subject	case
65	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	66 subject	det
66	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 deals	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 extent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Tuatha Danan	the final development	of that mythology	tree rules
2	apprehend	can · passive	the Tuatha Danan not said here		by one; rightly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»
3	read	present		the bardic literature	who nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent literature=Topic
4	deal	present	history		with this subject	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with subject=Theme
6	grow		that mythology			nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 47