Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 158
The development of the temple from the tomb was not forgotten, the whole country being filled with such tombs and incipient temples, from the great Brugh on the Boyne to the smallest mound in any of the cemeteries.
What happens: not forget, fill, develop · To what, where: development, whole country, great Brugh, 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: 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 development | det |
| 2 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgotten | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 temple | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 temple | det |
| 5 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 development | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tomb | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tomb | det |
| 8 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 temple | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 forgotten | advmod |
| 11 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 filled | aux:pass |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 forgotten | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 tombs | case |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tombs | amod |
| 20 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 temples | cc |
| 22 | incipient | incipient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 temples | compound |
| 23 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tombs | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Brugh | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Brugh | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Brugh | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Brugh | amod |
| 28 | Brugh | Brugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 Boyne | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Boyne | det |
| 31 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Brugh | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 mound | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mound | det |
| 34 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 mound | amod |
| 35 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 any | case |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 mound | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 cemeteries | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cemeteries | det |
| 40 | cemeteries | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 any | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · passive | the development of the temple from the tomb | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fill | gerund · passive | the whole country | the great Brugh on the Boyne | with such tombs and incipient temples; to the smallest mound in any of the cemeteries | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tomb=Instrument | |||
| 3 | develop | the temple from the tomb | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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