Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 140
Also, the feeling must have been present, that the hero in whose honour they performed the annual games, and periodically chanted the remembrance of whose achievements, saw and heard those things that were done in his honour.
Who acts: feeling, hero, remembrance, tomb · What happens: be, perform, chant, see, hear, do · To what, where: annual games, remembrance, things, honour, achievements
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 (feeling, hero, remembrance, 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 8 present | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Also | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feeling | det |
| 4 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 present | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 present | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 present | cop |
| 8 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 performed | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 performed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hero | det |
| 12 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 performed | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 honour | case |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 honour | nmod:poss |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hero | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 performed | nsubj |
| 17 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 present | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 games | det |
| 19 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 games | amod |
| 20 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 performed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 chanted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 chanted | cc |
| 23 | periodically | periodically | ADV | _ | 24 chanted | advmod |
| 24 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 performed | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 remembrance | det |
| 26 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chanted | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 achievements | case |
| 28 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 29 achievements | nmod:poss |
| 29 | achievements | achievement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 remembrance | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saw | punct |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 chanted | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 heard | cc |
| 33 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 saw | conj |
| 34 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 things | det |
| 35 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 heard | obj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 done | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 done | aux:pass |
| 38 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 things | acl:relcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 honour | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 honour | nmod:poss |
| 41 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 done | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must · perfect | the feeling | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform | past | the hero in the hero in the hero's honour's honour | the annual games | heroes = hero nsubj | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||
| 3 | chant | past | the remembrance of the remembrance of the remembrance's achievements's achievements | periodically property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remembrance=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | hear | past | that things | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do | past · passive | that things | tomb's honour | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | honour | the hero in the hero in honour's honour | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | remember | the remembrance of the remembrance of achievements's achievements's achievements | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | achieve | the remembrance of the remembrance of achievements's achievements | nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | honour | tomb | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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