Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 131
The tribal bards, wandering or attending the great fairs and assemblies, would disperse among strangers and neighbours a knowledge of his renown.
Who acts: tribal bards · What happens: wonder, attend, disperse · To what, where: great fairs, knowledge
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 (tribal bards), 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 | 3 bards | det |
| 2 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bards | amod |
| 3 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 disperse | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandering | punct |
| 5 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 bards | acl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 attending | cc |
| 7 | attending | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 wandering | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairs | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fairs | amod |
| 10 | fairs | fair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 attending | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 assemblies | cc |
| 12 | assemblies | assembly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fairs | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bards | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 disperse | aux |
| 15 | disperse | disperse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 strangers | case |
| 17 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 disperse | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 neighbours | cc |
| 19 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 strangers | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 knowledge | det |
| 21 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disperse | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 renown | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 renown | nmod:poss |
| 24 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knowledge | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 disperse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the tribal bards not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | attend | gerund | the tribal bards not said here | the great fairs and assemblies | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fair=Goal | ||||
| 3 | disperse | would | the tribal bards | a knowledge of reverence's renown | among strangers and neighbours | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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