Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 159
Thus, when the elder gods lost their spiritual sovereignty, and their destruction at the hands of the younger took the form of great battles, then as the god was forced to become a giant, so his temple was remembered to be a tomb.
Who acts: elder gods, younger, god, gods · What happens: lose, take, force, become, remember, be · To what, where: spiritual sovereignty, form, god, temple, tomb, hands
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 (elder gods, younger, god, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 lost | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gods | det |
| 5 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gods | amod |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sovereignty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sovereignty | amod |
| 10 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 destruction | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 destruction | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 14 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hands | det |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 destruction | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 took | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 took | det |
| 20 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hands | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 form | det |
| 23 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 battles | case |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 battles | amod |
| 26 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 form | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 forced | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 forced | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 forced | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 god | det |
| 31 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 forced | aux:pass |
| 33 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 took | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 become | mark |
| 35 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 forced | xcomp |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 giant | det |
| 37 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 become | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 remembered | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 remembered | advmod |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 temple | nmod:poss |
| 41 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 remembered | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 remembered | aux:pass |
| 43 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 forced | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 tomb | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 tomb | cop |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tomb | det |
| 47 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 remembered | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the elder gods | gods's spiritual sovereignty | gods's destruction at the hands obl; thus property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | take | past | younger | the form of great battles | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | the god | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | become | to-infinitive | the god not said here | giant property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | remember | past · passive | Brugh's temple | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | a tomb | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | destroy | gods = god | the hands | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place | |||||
| 8 | form | great battles | nom form «communication 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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