Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 139

That the tomb which held his ashes should be looked upon as the house of the hero must have been, even shortly after his interment, a prevailing sentiment, whether expressed or not.

Who acts: tomb · What happens: hold, look, be, prevail, express · To what, where: ashes, tomb

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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tomb	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tomb	det
3	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj:pass
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 held	nsubj
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tomb	acl:relcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ashes	nmod:poss
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 held	obj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 looked	aux:pass
10	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 house	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 interment	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hero	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hero	det
17	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 interment	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 interment	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 interment	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 interment	punct
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 shortly	advmod
23	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	26 interment	advmod
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 interment	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 interment	nmod:poss
26	interment	interment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sentiment	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sentiment	det
29	prevailing	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 sentiment	amod
30	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 interment	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 expressed	punct
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 expressed	mark
33	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 looked	conj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 not	cc
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 expressed	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	that tomb	tomb's ashes			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
2	look	should · passive		that tomb			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	is	must · perfect			after tomb's interment and a prevailing sentiment	upon the house of the hero; tomb nmod:poss; a prevailing sentiment conj; shortly property	tree rules
4	prevail	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	express	participle					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 139