Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 135
Now all this time the periodic celebrations, the games, and lamentations, and songs would be assuming a more solemn character.
Who acts: songs · What happens: assume · To what, where: solemn character, time
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 (songs), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 celebrations | det |
| 6 | periodic | periodic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 celebrations | amod |
| 7 | celebrations | celebration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 games | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 games | det |
| 10 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 celebrations | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lamentations | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lamentations | cc |
| 13 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 celebrations | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assuming | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 assuming | cc |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 assuming | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 assuming | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 assuming | aux |
| 19 | assuming | assume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 time | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 character | det |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 solemn | advmod |
| 22 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 character | amod |
| 23 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assuming | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | would · progressive | songs | a solemn character | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=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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