Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 137
Certain rites and a certain ritual would attend those annual games and lamentations, which would formerly not have been suitable, and eventually, when the hero, slowly drawing nearer through generations, if not centuries, at last reached Tir-na-n-Og, and was received into the family of the gods, a religious feeling of a different nature would mingle with the more secular celebration of his memory, and his rath or cairn would assume in their eyes a new character.
Who acts: Certain rites, annual games, last, different nature, rath · What happens: attend, not be, draw, reach, receive, mingle · To what, where: annual games, Tir na n, family, religious feeling, eyes, memory
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 (Certain rites, annual games, last, different nature), 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 | Certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rites | amod |
| 2 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attend | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ritual | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ritual | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ritual | amod |
| 6 | ritual | ritual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rites | conj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 attend | aux |
| 8 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 games | det |
| 10 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 games | amod |
| 11 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attend | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lamentations | cc |
| 13 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 games | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suitable | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 suitable | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 suitable | aux |
| 17 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 21 suitable | advmod |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 suitable | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 suitable | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 suitable | cop |
| 21 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 games | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hero | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hero | cc |
| 24 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 28 hero | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hero | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 hero | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hero | det |
| 28 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suitable | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 drawing | punct |
| 30 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 31 drawing | advmod |
| 31 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 hero | conj |
| 32 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 drawing | xcomp |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 generations | case |
| 34 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 nearer | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 centuries | punct |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 centuries | mark |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 centuries | advmod |
| 38 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attend | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 reached | punct |
| 40 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 42 reached | mark |
| 41 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 reached | nsubj |
| 42 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 attend | conj |
| 43 | Tir | Tir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 n | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Tir | punct |
| 45 | na | na | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 n | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 na | punct |
| 47 | n | n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 reached | obj |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 Og | punct |
| 49 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 n | appos |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 received | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 received | cc |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 received | aux:pass |
| 53 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 reached | advcl |
| 54 | into | into | ADP | _ | 56 family | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 family | det |
| 56 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 received | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 gods | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 gods | det |
| 59 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 family | nmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 feeling | punct |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 63 feeling | det |
| 62 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 feeling | amod |
| 63 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 family | conj |
| 64 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 69 mingle | mark |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 67 nature | det |
| 66 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 nature | amod |
| 67 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 mingle | nsubj |
| 68 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 69 mingle | aux |
| 69 | mingle | mingle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 63 feeling | acl |
| 70 | with | with | ADP | _ | 74 celebration | case |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 celebration | det |
| 72 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 73 secular | advmod |
| 73 | secular | secular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 74 celebration | amod |
| 74 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 mingle | obl |
| 75 | of | of | ADP | _ | 77 memory | case |
| 76 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 77 memory | nmod:poss |
| 77 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 celebration | nmod |
| 78 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 85 assume | punct |
| 79 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 85 assume | cc |
| 80 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 81 rath | nmod:poss |
| 81 | rath | rath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 85 assume | nsubj |
| 82 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 83 cairn | cc |
| 83 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 81 rath | conj |
| 84 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 85 assume | aux |
| 85 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 attend | conj |
| 86 | in | in | ADP | _ | 88 eyes | case |
| 87 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 88 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 88 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 85 assume | obl |
| 89 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 91 character | det |
| 90 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 91 character | amod |
| 91 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 88 eyes | nmod:unmarked |
| 92 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | would | Certain rites and a certain ritual | that annual games and lamentations | century | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme game=Goal | |||
| 2 | not is | would · perfect | that annual games and lamentations | the hero obl; formerly, suitable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | that annual games and lamentations not said here | near, slowly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | last | Tir na n | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent n=Theme | ||||
| 5 | receive | past · passive | last not said here | the family of the gods and a religious feeling | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 6 | mingle | would | a different nature | a religious feeling not said here | with the secular celebration of nature's memory | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient with celebration=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | assume | would | nature's rath or cairn | raths's eyes a new character | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | celebrate | nature's memory | nom celebration «event transitive»: of=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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