Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 26
Good [Note: Temple--vide post.] were the years of the sovereignty of Mac Ere.
Who acts: Good Note · What happens: be · To what, where: years
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 (Good Note), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Note | amod |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Note | punct |
| 3 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 years | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Temple | punct |
| 5 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Note | appos |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 post | punct |
| 7 | vide | vide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 post | compound |
| 8 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Temple | appos |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Temple | punct |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 Temple | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 years | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 years | det |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sovereignty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sovereignty | det |
| 16 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 years | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ere | case |
| 18 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ere | compound |
| 19 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sovereignty | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Good Note | the years | of the sovereignty of Mac Ere | 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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