Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 132
In the same cemetery or neighbourhood their might be other tombs of heroes now forgotten, while he, whose fame was in every bardic mouth in all that region, was honoured only with a tomb no greater than theirs.
Who acts: tomb · What happens: be, forget, honour · To what, where: other tombs, bardic mouth, same cemetery
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 (tomb), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cemetery | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cemetery | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cemetery | amod |
| 4 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 honoured | obl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 neighbourhood | cc |
| 6 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cemetery | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tombs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tombs | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tombs | cop |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tombs | amod |
| 11 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cemetery | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heroes | case |
| 13 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tombs | nmod |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 forgotten | advmod |
| 15 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tombs | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mouth | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 mouth | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fame | punct |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 fame | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 he | conj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 mouth | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 mouth | det |
| 25 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mouth | amod |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forgotten | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 region | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 region | det:predet |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 region | det |
| 30 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mouth | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cemetery | punct |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 honoured | aux:pass |
| 33 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 34 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 tomb | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 tomb | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 tomb | det |
| 37 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 honoured | obl |
| 38 | no | no | ADV | _ | 39 greater | advmod |
| 39 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 tomb | amod |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 theirs | case |
| 41 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 greater | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 honoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | might | cemetery's other tombs | of heroes; cemetery nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | participle | cemetery's other tombs not said here | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | tomb | every bardic mouth | in all region | tree rules | |||
| 4 | honour | past · passive | the same cemetery or neighbourhood and cemetery's other tombs | with a tomb | tree rules |
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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