Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 123
There is a _nodus_ here needing a god to solve it.
Who acts: _ nodus · What happens: be, need, solve · To what, where: god, nodus
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 (_ nodus), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nodus | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nodus | amod |
| 5 | nodus | nodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 nodus | punct |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 is | advmod |
| 8 | needing | need | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 is | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 god | det |
| 10 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needing | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 solve | mark |
| 12 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 god | acl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 solve | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a _ nodus | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | gerund | a _ nodus not said here | a god | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot god=Theme | ||||
| 3 | solve | to-infinitive | a _ nodus not said here | nodus | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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