Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 185
The great tumulus of New Grange was the temple of the divine or supernatural period of his spiritual or imagined career after death, and was a development by steps from that small unremembered grave where once his warriors hid the inurned ashes of the hero.
Who acts: great tumulus, development, warriors · What happens: be, imagine, unremember, hide, inurn · To what, where: temple, development, grave, inurned ashes
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 tumulus, development, warriors), 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 tumulus | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tumulus | amod |
| 3 | tumulus | tumulus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 temple | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Grange | case |
| 5 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Grange | amod |
| 6 | Grange | Grange | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tumulus | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 temple | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 temple | det |
| 9 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 divine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 divine | det |
| 12 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 temple | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 period | cc |
| 14 | supernatural | supernatural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 period | compound |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 divine | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 career | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 career | nmod:poss |
| 18 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 career | amod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 imagined | cc |
| 20 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 spiritual | conj |
| 21 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 period | nmod |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 career | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 development | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 development | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 development | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 development | det |
| 28 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 unremembered | nsubj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 steps | case |
| 30 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 development | nmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 small | case |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 small | nsubj |
| 33 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 steps | nmod |
| 34 | unremembered | unremember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 temple | acl:relcl |
| 35 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 unremembered | obj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 hid | advmod |
| 37 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 40 hid | mark |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 39 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 hid | nsubj |
| 40 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 grave | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ashes | det |
| 42 | inurned | inurn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 ashes | amod |
| 43 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 hid | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 hero | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 hero | det |
| 46 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ashes | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 temple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the great tumulus of New Grange | the temple | of the divine or supernatural period of period's spiritual career after death | tree rules | |||
| 2 | imagine | participle | the great tumulus of New Grange not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | a development | by steps from small that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | unremember | past | a development | grave | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | grave's warriors | the inurned ashes of the hero | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Patient | ||||
| 6 | inurn | participle | 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.
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