Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 29

They, too, smitten by a more celestial light, vanished from their hills, like Ossian lamenting over his own heroes; those others still mightier, might say:--

Who acts: predecessors, Ossian, others · What happens: smite, vanish, lament, say · To what, where: hills, own heroes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (predecessors, Ossian, others), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smitten	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smitten	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	5 smitten	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smitten	punct
5	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 light	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 light	det
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 light	amod
9	celestial	celestial	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	compound
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smitten	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vanished	punct
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smitten	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 hills	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hills	nmod:poss
15	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 vanished	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lamenting	punct
17	like	like	SCONJ	_	19 lamenting	mark
18	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 lamenting	nsubj
19	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 vanished	advcl
20	over	over	ADP	_	23 heroes	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heroes	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 heroes	amod
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lamenting	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
25	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 others	det
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 say	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 mightier	advmod
28	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 others	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 others	punct
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 smitten	parataxis
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 smitten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	smite	participle	predecessors = predecessor		by a more celestial light	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	vanish	past	predecessors = predecessor not said here	predecessors's hills		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location
3	lament	gerund	Ossian	tomb's own heroes		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	might	that others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 29