Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 124

Returning now to what would most likely take place after the interment of a hero, we may well imagine that the size of his tomb would be in proportion to the love which he inspired, where no accidental causes would interfere with the gratification of that feeling.

Who acts: we, size, love, accidental causes · What happens: return, take, imagine, be, inspire, interfere · To what, where: place, proportion, hero, feeling

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 (we, size, love, accidental causes), 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	Returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 imagine	advcl
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Returning	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 what	case
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 take	obj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 likely	advmod
7	likely	likely	ADV	_	8 take	advmod
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Returning	advcl
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 interment	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 interment	det
12	interment	interment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hero	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hero	det
15	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 interment	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Returning	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 imagine	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 imagine	aux
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 imagine	advmod
20	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 proportion	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 size	det
23	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 proportion	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 tomb	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tomb	nmod:poss
26	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 size	nmod
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 proportion	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 proportion	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 proportion	case
30	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 imagine	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 love	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 love	det
33	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 proportion	nmod
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 inspired	nsubj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 inspired	nsubj
36	inspired	inspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 love	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 interfere	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 interfere	advmod
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 causes	det
40	accidental	accidental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 causes	amod
41	causes	cause	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 interfere	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 interfere	aux
43	interfere	interfere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 inspired	ccomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 gratification	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 gratification	det
46	gratification	gratification	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 interfere	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 feeling	case
48	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 feeling	det
49	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gratification	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	gerund	we not said here			now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	would	we not said here	place		after the interment of a hero	what obj; likely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme place=Destination
3	imagine	may	we				well property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	would	the size of tomb's tomb		proportion		to the love	tree rules
5	inspire	past	the love				tomb nsubj	tree rules
6	interfere	would	no accidental causes				with the gratification of that feeling	tree rules
7	inter			a hero				nom interment «event transitive»: of=patient
8	gratify			that feeling				nom gratification «state transitive»: of=patient

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 124