Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 155
The fact that the grave of a hero developed slowly into the temple of a god, explains certain obscurities in the annals and literature.
Who acts: fact · What happens: develop, explain · To what, where: hero, temple, certain obscurities, annals
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 (fact), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 explains | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 grave | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grave | det |
| 5 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fact | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hero | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hero | det |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grave | nmod |
| 9 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hero | acl |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 developed | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 temple | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 temple | det |
| 13 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 developed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 god | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 temple | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 18 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 obscurities | amod |
| 20 | obscurities | obscurity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 explains | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 annals | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 annals | det |
| 23 | annals | annal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 obscurities | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 literature | cc |
| 25 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 annals | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | participle | a hero not said here | the temple of a god | slowly property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into temple=Product | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | the fact the grave of a hero | certain obscurities | the annals and literature | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obscurity=Topic |
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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