Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 19
Gods, worshipped by the whole nation, declined and became topical, and minor deities expanding, became national.
Who acts: Gods, minor deities · What happens: worshipp, decline, become, expand · To what, where: Gods
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 (Gods, minor deities), 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 | Gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 declined | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worshipped | punct |
| 3 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Gods | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 nation | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nation | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nation | amod |
| 7 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worshipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gods | punct |
| 9 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 declined | conj |
| 12 | topical | topical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 expanding | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 expanding | cc |
| 15 | minor | minor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deities | amod |
| 16 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 expanding | nsubj |
| 17 | expanding | expand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 declined | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 declined | conj |
| 20 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 became | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 declined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worshipp | participle | Gods not said here | by the whole nation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decline | past | Gods | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | become | past | Gods not said here | topical property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | expand | gerund | minor deities | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | become | past | Gods not said here | national property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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