Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 114
Now on the banks of the Boyne, opposite Rosnaree, there stands a tumulus, said to be the greatest in Europe.
Who acts: Boyne · What happens: stand, say, be · To what, where: tumulus, banks, Europe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Boyne), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 said | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 banks | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 banks | det |
| 4 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Boyne | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Boyne | det |
| 7 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 banks | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rosnaree | punct |
| 9 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rosnaree | amod |
| 10 | Rosnaree | Rosnaree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Boyne | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stands | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 stands | expl |
| 13 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Boyne | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tumulus | det |
| 15 | tumulus | tumulus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 banks | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 greatest | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 greatest | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 greatest | det |
| 21 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 said | ccomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Europe | case |
| 23 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 greatest | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the Boyne and opposite Rosnaree not said here | a tumulus | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tumulus=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the banks of the Boyne and opposite Rosnaree | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Europe | great property | 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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