Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 25
Daily the salt tide embraces the feet of the great tumulus, regal amongst its smaller comrades, where the last king of Fir-bolgs was worshipped by his people. "
Who acts: salt tide, people · What happens: embrace, worshipp · To what, where: feet, last king
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 (salt tide, people), 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 | Daily | daily | ADV | _ | 5 embraces | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tide | det |
| 3 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tide | compound |
| 4 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 embraces | nsubj |
| 5 | embraces | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feet | det |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 embraces | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tumulus | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tumulus | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tumulus | amod |
| 11 | tumulus | tumulus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feet | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 regal | punct |
| 13 | regal | regal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tumulus | conj |
| 14 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 17 comrades | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 16 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 comrades | amod |
| 17 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 regal | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 worshipped | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 worshipped | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 king | amod |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 worshipped | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bolgs | case |
| 24 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bolgs | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Fir | punct |
| 26 | bolgs | bolg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 king | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 worshipped | aux:pass |
| 28 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 comrades | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 people | nmod:poss |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 worshipped | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 embraces | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 embraces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | present | the salt tide | the feet of the great tumulus and regal amongst tide's smaller comrades | daily property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | worshipp | past · passive | Ere's people | the last king of Fir bolgs | 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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