Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 18
Great names became obscure and passed away, and new ones grew and became great.
Who acts: Great names, new ones · What happens: become, pass away, grow
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 (Great names, new ones), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 names | amod |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | obscure | obscure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 obscure | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 passed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Great names | obscure property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass away | participle | Great names not said here | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | new ones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | past | new ones not said here | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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