Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 179
When the Gentiles exalted their hero into a god, the charred bones were forgotten or ascribed to another.
Who acts: Gentiles · What happens: exalt, char, forget, ascribe · To what, where: hero, charred bones
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 (Gentiles), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 exalted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Gentiles | det |
| 3 | Gentiles | Gentile | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 exalted | nsubj |
| 4 | exalted | exalt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hero | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exalted | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 god | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 god | det |
| 9 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exalted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgotten | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bones | det |
| 12 | charred | char | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bones | amod |
| 13 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forgotten | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 15 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 god | acl:relcl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 ascribed | cc |
| 17 | ascribed | ascribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 forgotten | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 another | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 ascribed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exalted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt | past | the Gentiles | Gentiles's hero | into a god | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hero=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | char | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | forget | past · passive | the charred bones | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ascribe | participle | to another | tree rules |
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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