Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 173
The bee-hive houses of the monks, the early churches, and the round towers are a development of that architecture which constructed the central chambers of the raths.
Who acts: round towers, hive houses · What happens: be, construct · To what, where: development, central chambers
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 (round towers, hive houses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 houses | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hive | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bee | punct |
| 4 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 houses | compound |
| 5 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 constructed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 monks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monks | det |
| 8 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 houses | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 churches | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 churches | det |
| 11 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 churches | amod |
| 12 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 monks | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 development | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 development | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 towers | det |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 towers | amod |
| 17 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 development | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 development | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 development | det |
| 20 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 constructed | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 architecture | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 architecture | det |
| 23 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 development | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 constructed | nsubj |
| 25 | constructed | construct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chambers | det |
| 27 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 chambers | amod |
| 28 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 constructed | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 raths | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 raths | det |
| 31 | raths | rath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 chambers | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the round towers | a development | of that architecture | tree rules | |||
| 2 | construct | past | the hive houses of the monks and the early churches | the central chambers of the raths | which nsubj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Result |
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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