Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 116
The earth is confined by a compact stone wall about twelve feet high.
Who acts: compact stone wall · What happens: confine · To what, where: earth
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 (compact stone wall), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confined | aux:pass |
| 4 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 7 | compact | compact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wall | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wall | compound |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confined | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 twelve | advmod |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 feet | nummod |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 high | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 confined | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | present · passive | a compact stone wall | the earth | high twelve feet obl | vn confine-92-1 «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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