Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 129
The ever-active, eager-loving imagination would behold the champion grown to heroic proportions, the favourite of the gods, the performer of superhuman feats.
Who acts: active loving imagination · What happens: behold, grow · To what, where: champion
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 (active loving imagination), 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 | 9 imagination | det |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 active | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ever | punct |
| 4 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 imagination | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 active | punct |
| 6 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loving | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 eager | punct |
| 8 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 imagination | amod |
| 9 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 behold | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 behold | aux |
| 11 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 champion | det |
| 13 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 behold | obj |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 champion | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 proportions | case |
| 16 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 proportions | amod |
| 17 | proportions | proportion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 favourite | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 favourite | det |
| 20 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 proportions | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gods | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gods | det |
| 23 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 favourite | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 performer | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 performer | det |
| 26 | performer | performer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gods | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 feats | case |
| 28 | superhuman | superhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feats | amod |
| 29 | feats | feat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 performer | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 behold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | would | the active loving imagination | the champion | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer champion=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | the champion not said here | to heroic proportions | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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