Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 3
From the FIRBOLGS were descended, or claimed to have descended, the Connaught warriors who fought with Queen Meave against Cuculain, also the Clan Humor, appearing in the Second Volume, also the heroes of Ossian, the Fianna Eireen.
Who acts: Connaught warriors · What happens: descend, claim, fight, appear · To what, where: Connaught warriors, FIRBOLGS, Second Volume
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 (Connaught warriors), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 FIRBOLGS | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 FIRBOLGS | det |
| 3 | FIRBOLGS | FIRBOLGS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 descended | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 descended | aux:pass |
| 5 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 claimed | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 claimed | cc |
| 8 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 descended | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 descended | mark |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 descended | aux |
| 11 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 claimed | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 warriors | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 warriors | det |
| 14 | Connaught | Connaught | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 warriors | compound |
| 15 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 descended | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 fought | nsubj |
| 17 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Queen | case |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fought | obl |
| 20 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Queen | flat |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 Cuculain | case |
| 22 | Cuculain | Cuculain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Clan | punct |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 Clan | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Clan | det |
| 26 | Clan | Clan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 descended | obl |
| 27 | Humor | Humor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Clan | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 appearing | punct |
| 29 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 descended | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Volume | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Volume | det |
| 32 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 Volume | amod |
| 33 | Volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 appearing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 heroes | punct |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 heroes | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 heroes | det |
| 37 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Volume | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Ossian | case |
| 39 | Ossian | Ossian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 heroes | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Eireen | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Eireen | det |
| 42 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Eireen | compound |
| 43 | Eireen | Eireen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Ossian | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past · passive | the Connaught warriors | the FIRBOLGS | the Clan obl | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: from firbolgs=Location | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | descend | to-infinitive · perfect | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fight | past | the Connaught warriors | with Queen; against Cuculain | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with queen=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | appear | gerund | the Second Volume and the heroes of Ossian and the Fianna Eireen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in volume=Location |
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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