Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 157
The elder gods, conquered and destroyed by the younger, could no longer be regarded as really divine, for were they not proved to be mortal?
Who acts: gods · What happens: conquer, destroy, regard, not be, be · To what, where: elder gods
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 (gods), 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 | 3 gods | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gods | amod |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 conquered | punct |
| 5 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 destroyed | cc |
| 7 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 conquered | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 younger | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 younger | det |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 destroyed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 regarded | punct |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 regarded | aux |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 regarded | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 regarded | aux:pass |
| 16 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 conquered | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 divine | mark |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 divine | advmod |
| 19 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 regarded | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 proved | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 proved | mark |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 proved | cop |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 proved | nsubj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 proved | advmod |
| 25 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conquered | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 mortal | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 mortal | cop |
| 28 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 proved | xcomp |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | participle · passive | the elder gods | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | destroy | participle | by the younger | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | regard | could · passive | divine, long property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | gods = god | prove property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | gods = god not said here | mortal property | tree rules |
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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