Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 174
In this fact lies, too, the explanation of the cyclopean style of building which characterizes our most ancient buildings.
Who acts: explanation, cyclopean style · What happens: lie, characterize, explain · To what, where: fact, ancient buildings
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 (explanation, cyclopean style), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fact | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 lies | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 explanation | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 explanation | det |
| 9 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 style | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 style | det |
| 12 | cyclopean | cyclopean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 style | amod |
| 13 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 explanation | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 building | case |
| 15 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 style | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 characterizes | nsubj |
| 17 | characterizes | characterize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 explanation | acl:relcl |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 buildings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 ancient | advmod |
| 20 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 buildings | amod |
| 21 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 characterizes | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | this fact | the explanation of the cyclopean style of building parataxis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fact=Location | ||||
| 2 | characterize | present | the explanation of the cyclopean style of building | our ancient buildings | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent building=Theme | ||||
| 3 | explain | the cyclopean style of building | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=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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