Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 17
Like a human clan, the elements of this divine family grew and died, and shed forth seedlings which, in time, over-grew and killed the parent stock.
Who acts: elements · What happens: grow, die, shed, kill · To what, where: seedlings, parent stock
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 (elements), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 clan | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 clan | det |
| 3 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clan | amod |
| 4 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 clan | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 elements | det |
| 7 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 family | det |
| 10 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 family | amod |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elements | nmod |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 died | cc |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shed | cc |
| 17 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 shed | advmod |
| 19 | seedlings | seedling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shed | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 time | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seedlings | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 over-grew | punct |
| 25 | over-grew | over-grew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 killed | cc |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stock | det |
| 29 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stock | compound |
| 30 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the elements of this divine family | like a human clan | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | the elements of this divine family not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | shed | past | the elements of this divine family not said here | seedlings | in time seedlings and over-grew | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seedling=Source | ||
| 4 | kill | past | the elements of this divine family not said here | the parent stock | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme |
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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