Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 180
The hero then became immortal in his own right; he had feasted with Mananan and eaten his life-giving food, and would not know death.
Who acts: hero, fact · What happens: become, feast, eat, give, not know · To what, where: giving food, death
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 (hero, fact), 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 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 became | advmod |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 right | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 right | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 right | amod |
| 9 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 immortal | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 feasted | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feasted | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 feasted | aux |
| 13 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 became | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Mananan | case |
| 15 | Mananan | Mananan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 feasted | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eaten | cc |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 feasted | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 giving | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 life | punct |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 food | amod |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 know | cc |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 know | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 know | advmod |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 became | conj |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 know | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the hero | then | immortal property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | feast | past · perfect | fact | with Mananan | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | eat | participle | fact not said here | fact's giving food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | life compound | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not know | would | the hero not said here | death | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus |
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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