Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 142
As a god, was he not one of those who had eaten of the food provided by Mananan, and therefore never died.
Who acts: feeling · What happens: not be, eat, provide, not die · To what, where: one, food
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), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 god | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 god | det |
| 3 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 god | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 one | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 those | case |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 eaten | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 eaten | aux |
| 13 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 food | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 food | det |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eaten | obl |
| 17 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 food | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Mananan | case |
| 19 | Mananan | Mananan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 provided | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 died | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 died | cc |
| 22 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 24 died | advmod |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 died | advmod |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | feeling | one | as a god; of those | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | of the food; who nsubj | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source | |||||
| 3 | provide | participle | the food not said here | by Mananan | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | not die | past | therefore property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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