Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 181
When the mortal character of the hero was forgotten, his house or temple might be erected anywhere.
What happens: forget, erect · To what, where: mortal character, house
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: 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 | 9 forgotten | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 character | det |
| 3 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 character | amod |
| 4 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgotten | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hero | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 character | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 9 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 erected | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgotten | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 erected | nsubj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 temple | cc |
| 14 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | conj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 erected | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 erected | aux:pass |
| 17 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 erected | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 erected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · passive | the mortal character of the hero | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | erect | might · passive | character's house or temple | anywhere property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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