Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 30
"Once every step which we took might be heard throughout the firmament.
Who acts: step · What happens: take, hear · To what, where: step
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 (step), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 2 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 10 heard | mark |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 step | det |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 took | nsubj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 step | acl:relcl |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heard | aux:pass |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 13 firmament | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 firmament | det |
| 13 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | every step | we nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | might · passive | every step | throughout the firmament | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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