Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 24
The ancient hero there interred is to the student of the Irish bardic literature a figure as familiar and clearly seen as any personage in the Biographia Britannica.
Who acts: ancient hero · What happens: inter, be, see · To what, where: ancient hero
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient hero), 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 | 3 hero | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hero | amod |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 student | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 interred | advmod |
| 5 | interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hero | acl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 student | cop |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 student | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 student | det |
| 9 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 literature | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 literature | det |
| 12 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 literature | amod |
| 13 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 literature | amod |
| 14 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 student | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 figure | det |
| 16 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 literature | appos |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 familiar | case |
| 18 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 figure | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seen | cc |
| 20 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 familiar | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 personage | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 personage | det |
| 24 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Britannica | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Britannica | det |
| 27 | Biographia | Biographia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Britannica | compound |
| 28 | Britannica | Britannica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 personage | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 student | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inter | participle | the ancient hero not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the ancient hero | to the student; of the Irish bardic literature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | the ancient hero not said here | as any personage in the Biographia Britannica; clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as personage=Attribute |
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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