Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 50
Stated succinctly, the mythological record of the bards, with its chronological decorations, runs thus:--
Who acts: mythological record · What happens: state, run, record · To what, where: bards
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 (mythological record), 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 | Stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 runs | advcl |
| 2 | succinctly | succinctly | ADV | _ | 1 Stated | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stated | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 record | det |
| 5 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 record | amod |
| 6 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 runs | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bards | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bards | det |
| 9 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 record | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 decorations | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 decorations | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 decorations | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chronological | chronological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 decorations | amod |
| 14 | decorations | decoration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bards | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 runs | punct |
| 16 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 runs | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 runs | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 runs | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | participle | the mythological record of the bards and record's chronological decorations not said here | succinctly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | present | the mythological record of the bards and record's chronological decorations | thus property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | record | the bards and record's chronological decorations | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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