Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 121
If this tomb were raised to the hero whose name it bears immediately after his death, and in his mundane character, he must have been such a king as never existed in Ireland, even in the late Christian times.
Who acts: chamber, tomb, king · What happens: raise, name, be, not exist, die · To what, where: tomb, hero, king, mundane character, Ireland
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 (chamber, tomb, king), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 raised | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tomb | det |
| 3 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raised | aux:pass |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hero | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hero | det |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obl |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bears | compound |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 name | nsubj |
| 12 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hero | nmod |
| 13 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 death | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bears | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 king | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 king | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 character | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 character | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mundane | mundane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 character | amod |
| 22 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 king | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 character | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 king | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 king | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 king | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 king | cop |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 king | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | parataxis |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 existed | mark |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 existed | advmod |
| 33 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 king | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Ireland | case |
| 35 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 existed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 times | punct |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 times | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 times | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 times | det |
| 40 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 times | amod |
| 41 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 times | amod |
| 42 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 existed | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past · passive | this tomb | the hero name bears after tomb's death | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hero=Destination | ||||
| 2 | name | chamber | name bears after tomb's death nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | must · perfect | tomb | such king | tomb's mundane character | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not exist | past | such king not said here | Ireland | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location | |||
| 5 | die | tomb | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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