Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 125
Of one of his heroes, Ossian, sings--
Who acts: one · What happens: sing
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 (one), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sings | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 heroes | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heroes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ossian | punct |
| 7 | Ossian | Ossian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sings | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ossian | punct |
| 9 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | one of tomb's heroes | Ossian nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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