Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 145

From reason and probability, we would with some certainty conclude that the great tumulus of New Grange was the temple of some Irish god; but that it was so, we know as a fact.

Who acts: we, great tumulus, certainty · What happens: conclude, be, know · To what, where: reason, temple

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 (we, great tumulus, certainty), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 reason	case
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conclude	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 probability	cc
4	probability	probability	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reason	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reason	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 conclude	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 conclude	aux
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 certainty	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 certainty	det
10	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conclude	obl
11	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 temple	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tumulus	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tumulus	amod
15	tumulus	tumulus	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 temple	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Grange	case
17	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Grange	amod
18	Grange	Grange	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tumulus	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 temple	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 temple	det
21	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conclude	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 god	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 god	det
24	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 god	amod
25	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 temple	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 know	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 so	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 so	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 know	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
34	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 conclude	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 fact	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fact	det
37	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 know	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 conclude	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conclude	would	we		reason and probability	with some certainty	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from reason=Source
2	is a	past	the great tumulus of New Grange	the temple		of some Irish god	tree rules
3	is	past	certainty			so property	tree rules
4	know	present	we			as a fact	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as fact=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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 145