Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 105
This could be believed, even in the days when the imagination was controlled by the annalists and tribal heralds.
Who acts: annalists · What happens: believe, control · To what, where: This, imagination
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 (annalists), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believed | aux:pass |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 days | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 believed | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 controlled | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 imagination | det |
| 12 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 controlled | aux:pass |
| 14 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 days | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 annalists | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 annalists | det |
| 17 | annalists | annalist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 controlled | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heralds | cc |
| 19 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heralds | amod |
| 20 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 annalists | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could · passive | This | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | control | past · passive | the annalists and tribal heralds | the imagination | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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