Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 103
Even in the case of a hero so surrounded with historic light as Cuculain we find a halo, as of godhood, often settling around him.
Who acts: historic light, we, godhood · What happens: surround, find, settle · To what, where: case, halo
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (historic light, we, godhood), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 case | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hero | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 surrounded | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 surrounded | advmod |
| 9 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 11 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 light | amod |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Cuculain | case |
| 14 | Cuculain | Cuculain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 surrounded | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 halo | det |
| 18 | halo | halo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 godhood | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 godhood | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | godhood | godhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 settling | punct |
| 24 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 settling | advmod |
| 25 | settling | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 godhood | acl |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 settling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle · passive | historic light | the case | of a hero | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | find | present | we | a halo | as Cuculain; as godhood | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent halo=Theme as cuculain=Attribute | |||
| 3 | settle | gerund | godhood not said here | around case; often property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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