Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 33
An unceasing translation of heroes into Tir-na-n-og went on through time, the fairy-world of the bards, receiving every century new inhabitants, whose humbler human origin being forgotten, were supplied there with both wives and children.
Who acts: unceasing translation, humbler, heroes · What happens: go on, receive, origin, forget, supply, translate · To what, where: new inhabitants, human origin, n og
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 (unceasing translation, humbler, heroes), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 translation | det |
| 2 | unceasing | unceasing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 translation | amod |
| 3 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 heroes | case |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 translation | nmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 og | case |
| 7 | Tir | Tir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 og | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tir | punct |
| 9 | na | na | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Tir | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 na | punct |
| 11 | n | n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 og | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 n | punct |
| 13 | og | og | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 translation | nmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 world | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 20 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 world | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fairy | punct |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bards | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bards | det |
| 25 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 world | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 receiving | punct |
| 27 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 century | det |
| 29 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 receiving | obj |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 inhabitants | amod |
| 31 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 receiving | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 origin | punct |
| 33 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 34 humbler | nmod:poss |
| 34 | humbler | humbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 origin | nsubj |
| 35 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 origin | amod |
| 36 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 inhabitants | appos |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 38 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 origin | acl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 supplied | punct |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 supplied | aux:pass |
| 41 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 went | conj |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 supplied | advmod |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 wives | case |
| 44 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 wives | det |
| 45 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 supplied | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 children | cc |
| 47 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 wives | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | a unceasing translation of heroes into n og Tir | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | gerund | a unceasing translation of heroes into n og Tir not said here | new inhabitants | century | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme | |||
| 3 | origin | human origin's humbler | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | forget | gerund · passive | human origin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | supply | past · passive | a unceasing translation of heroes into n og Tir not said here | there | with both wives and children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with wife=Theme | |||
| 6 | translate | heroes | n og Tir | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent into=place |
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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