Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 27
There was no wet or tempestuous weather in Ireland, nor was there any unfruitful year."
What happens: be · To what, where: unfruitful year
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 was | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 weather | det |
| 4 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weather | amod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 tempestuous | cc |
| 6 | tempestuous | tempestuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wet | conj |
| 7 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Ireland | case |
| 9 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 weather | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 was | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 year | cop |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 year | det |
| 15 | unfruitful | unfruitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 year | amod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 year | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 year | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | any unfruitful year | 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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