Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 182
The great Raths of the Boyne--a place grown sacred from causes which we may not now learn--represented, probably, heroes and heroines, who died and were interred in many different parts of the country.
Who acts: we, heroes · What happens: grow, not learn, represent, die, inter · To what, where: place, great Raths, many different parts
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 (we, heroes), 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 | 3 Raths | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Raths | amod |
| 3 | Raths | rath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Boyne | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boyne | det |
| 6 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Raths | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Boyne | appos |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 place | acl |
| 11 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grown | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 causes | case |
| 13 | causes | cause | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grown | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 learn | obj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 learn | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 learn | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 learn | advmod |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 learn | advmod |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 represented | punct |
| 21 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 probably | punct |
| 23 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 21 represented | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heroes | punct |
| 25 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 represented | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 heroines | cc |
| 27 | heroines | heroine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 heroes | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 died | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 died | nsubj |
| 30 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 heroes | acl:relcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 interred | cc |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 interred | aux:pass |
| 33 | interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 died | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 parts | case |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 parts | amod |
| 36 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 parts | amod |
| 37 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 interred | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 country | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 country | det |
| 40 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 parts | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | a place not said here | from causes; sacred property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from cause=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not learn | may | we | a place | now | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | |||
| 3 | represent | participle · passive | the great Raths of the Boyne | heroes and heroines obl; probably property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | heroes and heroines | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | inter | past · passive | heroes and heroines not said here | many different parts of the country | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/10/182/