Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 168
A desire to make the house of the god as spacious within as it was great without, and a desire to transfer his worship, or the more esoteric and solemn part of it, from without to within.
Who acts: house, motive · What happens: make, be, transfer, worship · To what, where: house, worship, desire
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 (house, motive), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 desire | det |
| 2 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desire | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 god | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 god | det |
| 9 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 spacious | case |
| 11 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 god | nmod |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 great | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 great | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 great | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 great | cop |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | obl |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 make | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 desire | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 desire | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 desire | det |
| 21 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 desire | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 transfer | mark |
| 23 | transfer | transfer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 desire | acl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 worship | nmod:poss |
| 25 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 transfer | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 part | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 part | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 part | det |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 esoteric | advmod |
| 30 | esoteric | esoteric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 part | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 solemn | cc |
| 32 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 esoteric | conj |
| 33 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 desire | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 part | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 without | punct |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 without | case |
| 38 | without | without | ADP | _ | 2 desire | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 without | fixed |
| 40 | within | within | ADP | _ | 38 without | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | the house of the god as spacious | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | |||||
| 2 | is | past | house | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | transfer | to-infinitive | motive's worship | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent worship=Theme | |||||
| 5 | worship | motive | nom worship «act intransitive»: 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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