Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 29

We know his battles, and the names of those whom he slew in battle, and how he was himself slain, and by whose hands.

Who acts: We, student · What happens: know, slay, be, battle, name · To what, where: battles, battle, slain, those

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, student), 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 battles	nmod:poss
4	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 names	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 names	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 names	det
8	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 those	case
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 names	nmod
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 slew	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slew	nsubj
13	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 those	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 battle	case
15	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slain	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 slain	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 slain	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 slain	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 slain	cop
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 slain	nsubj
22	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hands	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hands	cc
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 slain	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	We	student's battles		the names of those parataxis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer battle=Stimulus
2	slay	past	student		battle	whom obj	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
3	is a	past	student	slain and slain and slain's hands's hands		slain and slain and hands's hands's hands conj	tree rules
4	battle		student				nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent
5	name			those			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 29