Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 164
Even in this passage the writer seems to have been unable to dispossess his mind quite of the traditional belief that the Brugh was the Dagda's house.
Who acts: passage, Brugh, writer · What happens: seem, be, dispossess, mind · To what, where: mind, house
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 (passage, Brugh, writer), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 passage | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 passage | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 passage | det |
| 4 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 writer | det |
| 6 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 unable | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unable | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 unable | cop |
| 11 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dispossess | mark |
| 13 | dispossess | dispossess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unable | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dispossess | obj |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 belief | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 belief | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 belief | det |
| 19 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 belief | amod |
| 20 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dispossess | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 house | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Brugh | det |
| 23 | Brugh | Brugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 house | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Dagda | det |
| 26 | Dagda | Dagda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Dagda | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belief | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | this passage | the writer nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive · perfect | this passage not said here | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dispossess | to-infinitive | this passage not said here | writer's mind | of the traditional belief | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mind=Source of belief=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | past | the Brugh | the Dagda's house | the Dagda nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mind | writer | nom mind «cognition 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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