Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 32
But that divine tree, though it had its branches in fairy-land, had its roots in the soil of Erin.
Who acts: tree, divine tree · What happens: have, soil · To what, where: branches, fairy land, roots, soil, Erin
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 (tree, divine tree), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tree | conj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 branches | nmod:poss |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 land | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fairy | punct |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 roots | nmod:poss |
| 18 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 soil | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soil | det |
| 21 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Erin | case |
| 23 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 soil | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | tree | tree's branches | fairy land | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | that divine tree | tree's roots | the soil of Erin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | |||
| 3 | soil | Erin | nom soil «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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