Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 20
Gods lost their immortality, and were remembered as giants of the old time--mighty men, which were of yore, men of renown.
Who acts: Gods, mighty men · What happens: lose, remember, be · To what, where: immortality
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, mighty men), 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 | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 immortality | nmod:poss |
| 4 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 remembered | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 remembered | aux:pass |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lost | parataxis |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 giants | case |
| 10 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remembered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giants | nmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 giants | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 yore | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 yore | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 yore | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 yore | case |
| 22 | yore | yore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 men | punct |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 yore | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 renown | case |
| 26 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 men | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Gods | gods's immortality | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immortality=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remember | past · passive | as giants of the old time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: as giant=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | past | mighty men | of yore and men of renown; men of renown conj | 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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