Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 26

We know the names of his father and his grandfather, and of the father of his grandfather, of his mother, and the father and mother of his mother, and the pedigrees and histories of each of these.

Who acts: We · What happens: know, name · To what, where: names, father

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 names	det
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 names	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grandfather	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grandfather	nmod:poss
10	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 father	cc
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 father	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 father	det
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 grandfather	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grandfather	nmod:poss
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mother	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mother	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 father	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 father	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 father	det
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mother	cc
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 father	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 mother	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mother	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pedigrees	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pedigrees	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pedigrees	det
35	pedigrees	pedigree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 father	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 histories	cc
37	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pedigrees	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 each	case
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 pedigrees	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 these	case
41	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 each	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	We	the names of student's father and student's grandfather				the father of student's grandfather and student's mother parataxis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	name			student's father and student's grandfather					nom name «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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 26