Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 170
Elsewhere the tomb, instead of developing as a tumulus or barrow, produced the effect of greatness by huge circumvallations of earth, and massive walls of stone.
Who acts: tomb · What happens: develop, produce, effect · To what, where: effect, greatness
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), 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 | Elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 3 tomb | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tomb | det |
| 3 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 produced | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 developing | punct |
| 5 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 7 developing | mark |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 instead | fixed |
| 7 | developing | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tomb | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 tumulus | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tumulus | det |
| 10 | tumulus | tumulus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 developing | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 barrow | cc |
| 12 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tumulus | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tomb | punct |
| 14 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 effect | det |
| 16 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 produced | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 greatness | case |
| 18 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 effect | nmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 circumvallations | case |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 circumvallations | amod |
| 21 | circumvallations | circumvallation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 produced | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 circumvallations | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 walls | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 walls | cc |
| 26 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 walls | amod |
| 27 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 produced | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 stone | case |
| 29 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 walls | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | gerund | the tomb not said here | as a tumulus or barrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | produce | past | the tomb | the effect of greatness | by huge circumvallations of earth; massive walls of stone obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | |||
| 3 | effect | greatness | nom effect «phenomenon 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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