Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 28
We know all the striking events of his boyhood and manhood, the names of his horses and his weapons, his own character and his friends, male and female.
Who acts: We · What happens: know, name · To what, where: striking events, horses
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 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 events | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 events | det |
| 5 | striking | striking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 events | compound |
| 6 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 know | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 boyhood | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boyhood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 events | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 manhood | cc |
| 11 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boyhood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 names | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 names | det |
| 14 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 events | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 horses | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 names | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weapons | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 20 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 horses | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 character | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 character | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 character | amod |
| 24 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 horses | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 friends | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friends | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 horses | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 male | punct |
| 29 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 events | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 female | cc |
| 31 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 male | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | all striking events of student's boyhood and manhood and the names of student's horses and student's weapons and student's own character and student's friends and male and female | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer event=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | name | student's horses and student's weapons and student's own character and student's friends | 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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