Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 117
The central chamber, made of huge irregular pebbles, is about twenty feet from ground to roof, communicating with the outer air by a flagged passage.
Who acts: central chamber, twenty feet · What happens: make, be, communicate, flag · To what, where: central chamber, twenty feet, ground
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 (central chamber, twenty feet), 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 | 3 chamber | det |
| 2 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chamber | amod |
| 3 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chamber | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pebbles | case |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pebbles | amod |
| 8 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pebbles | amod |
| 9 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chamber | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 feet | cop |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 twenty | advmod |
| 13 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 feet | nummod |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ground | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 communicating | punct |
| 20 | communicating | communicate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 feet | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 23 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 air | amod |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 communicating | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 passage | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 passage | det |
| 27 | flagged | flag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 passage | amod |
| 28 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 communicating | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the central chamber not said here | of huge irregular pebbles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the central chamber | twenty feet | ground to roof | tree rules | |||
| 3 | communicate | gerund | twenty feet not said here | with the outer air; by a flagged passage | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with air=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | flag | participle | 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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