Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 2
Age of the FIRBOLGS and third cycle of the Fomorians, once gods, but expulsed from their sovereignty by the Tuatha De Danan, after which they loom through the heroic literature as giants of the elder time, overthrown by the gods.
Who acts: gods · What happens: expuls, loom, overthrow · To what, where: Age, sovereignty, heroic literature, elder time
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), 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 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expulsed | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 FIRBOLGS | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 FIRBOLGS | det |
| 4 | FIRBOLGS | FIRBOLGS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Age | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cycle | cc |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 cycle | amod |
| 7 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 FIRBOLGS | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fomorians | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fomorians | det |
| 10 | Fomorians | Fomorian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 cycle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gods | punct |
| 12 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 13 gods | case |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Fomorians | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 expulsed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 expulsed | cc |
| 16 | expulsed | expuls | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sovereignty | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sovereignty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expulsed | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Danan | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Danan | det |
| 22 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Danan | compound |
| 23 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tuatha | flat |
| 24 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 expulsed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 loom | punct |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 loom | obl |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 loom | nsubj |
| 29 | loom | loom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 expulsed | conj |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 33 literature | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 literature | det |
| 32 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 literature | amod |
| 33 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 loom | obl |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 giants | case |
| 35 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 loom | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 giants | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 overthrown | punct |
| 41 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 time | acl |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 gods | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 gods | det |
| 44 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 overthrown | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 expulsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expuls | participle | Age of the FIRBOLGS and third cycle of the Fomorians | gods's sovereignty | by the Tuatha Danan | tree rules | |||
| 2 | loom | present | gods = god | the heroic literature | as giants of the elder time; which obl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through literature=Location | |||
| 3 | overthrow | participle | the elder time not said here | by the gods | 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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