Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 175
The cromlech alone, formed in very ancient times the central chamber of the cairn; it is found in the centre of the raths on Moy Tura, belonging to the stone age and that of the Firbolgs.
Who acts: cromlech · What happens: form, find, belong · To what, where: cromlech, centre
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 (cromlech), 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 | 2 cromlech | det |
| 2 | cromlech | cromlech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 cromlech | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 formed | punct |
| 5 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 ancient | advmod |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 formed | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chamber | det |
| 11 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chamber | amod |
| 12 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 times | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cairn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cairn | det |
| 15 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chamber | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 formed | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 centre | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 centre | det |
| 22 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 raths | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 raths | det |
| 25 | raths | rath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 centre | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Tura | case |
| 27 | Moy | Moy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tura | compound |
| 28 | Tura | Tura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 raths | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 belonging | punct |
| 30 | belonging | belong | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 found | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 age | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 age | det |
| 33 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 age | compound |
| 34 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 belonging | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 that | cc |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 age | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Firbolgs | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Firbolgs | det |
| 39 | Firbolgs | Firbolgs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 that | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | participle | the cromlech | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | cromlech | the centre of the raths on Moy Tura | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | to the stone age that of the Firbolgs | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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