Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 107
They were not the offspring of the poetic imagination, personifying the various aspects of nature.
Who acts: gods · What happens: not be, personify · To what, where: offspring, various aspects
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 (gods), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 offspring | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 offspring | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 offspring | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 offspring | det |
| 5 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 imagination | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 imagination | det |
| 8 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 imagination | amod |
| 9 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offspring | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 personifying | punct |
| 11 | personifying | personify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 offspring | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 aspects | det |
| 13 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 aspects | amod |
| 14 | aspects | aspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 personifying | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 nature | case |
| 16 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 aspects | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offspring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | gods = god | the offspring | of the poetic imagination | tree rules | |||
| 2 | personify | gerund | gods = god not said here | the various aspects of nature | tree rules |
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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