Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 160
Doubtless, in his own territory, divine honours were still paid him; but in the national imagination and in the classical literature and received history, he was a giant of the olden time, slain by the gods, and interred in the rath which bore his name.
Who acts: tomb, rath · What happens: pay, receive, be, slay, inter, bear · To what, where: Doubtless divine honours, history, giant, gods, rath, name
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 (tomb, rath), 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 | Doubtless | Doubtless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 honours | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 territory | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 territory | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 territory | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 territory | amod |
| 6 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Doubtless | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Doubtless | punct |
| 8 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 honours | amod |
| 9 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 paid | aux:pass |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 paid | advmod |
| 12 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 paid | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 imagination | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 imagination | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 imagination | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 imagination | det |
| 18 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 imagination | amod |
| 19 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paid | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 literature | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 literature | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 literature | det |
| 23 | classical | classical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 literature | amod |
| 24 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 imagination | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 received | cc |
| 26 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 literature | conj |
| 27 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 giant | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 giant | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 giant | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 giant | det |
| 32 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 imagination | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 35 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 time | amod |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 giant | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 slain | punct |
| 38 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 imagination | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 gods | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gods | det |
| 41 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 slain | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 interred | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 interred | cc |
| 44 | interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 gods | acl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 rath | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 rath | det |
| 47 | rath | rath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 interred | obl |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 bore | nsubj |
| 49 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 rath | acl:relcl |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 name | nmod:poss |
| 51 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bore | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | Doubtless divine honours | still | tomb obj; the national imagination and the classical literature and a giant parataxis | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient he=Asset | |||
| 2 | receive | past | history | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | tomb | a giant | time | tree rules | |||
| 4 | slay | participle | by the gods | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | inter | participle | the gods not said here | the rath | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bear | past | the rath | tomb's name | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 7 | name | tomb | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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