Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 184

He was the mortal scion or ward of an elder god, Elathan, and was interred in some unknown grave--marked, perhaps, by a plain pillar stone, or small insignificant cairn.

Who acts: title · What happens: be, inter, mark · To what, where: mortal scion, unknown grave

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 (title), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scion	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scion	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scion	det
4	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scion	amod
5	scion	scion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 ward	cc
7	ward	ward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scion	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 god	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 god	det
10	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 god	amod
11	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ward	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Elathan	punct
13	Elathan	Elathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 god	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 interred	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 interred	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 interred	aux:pass
17	interred	inter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scion	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 grave	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 grave	det
20	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grave	amod
21	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 interred	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 marked	punct
23	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 interred	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 perhaps	punct
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 marked	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stone	punct
27	by	by	ADP	_	31 stone	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 stone	det
29	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stone	amod
30	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stone	compound
31	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marked	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cairn	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 cairn	cc
34	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cairn	amod
35	insignificant	insignificant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cairn	compound
36	cairn	cairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stone	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	title	the mortal scion or ward of a elder god		ward of a elder god conj	tree rules
2	inter	past · passive			some unknown grave		tree rules
3	mark	participle				by a plain pillar stone or small insignificant cairn; perhaps property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by stone=Destination

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 184