Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 34
The apotheosis of great men went forward, tirelessly; the hero of one epoch becoming the god of the next, until the formation of the Tuatha De Danan, who represent the gods of the historic ages.
Who acts: apotheosis, one epoch, formation · What happens: go, become, represent · To what, where: hero, god, gods
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 (apotheosis, one epoch, formation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 apotheosis | det |
| 2 | apotheosis | apotheosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 apotheosis | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tirelessly | punct |
| 9 | tirelessly | tirelessly | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 hero | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hero | det |
| 12 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 epoch | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 epoch | nummod |
| 15 | epoch | epoch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hero | nmod |
| 16 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 epoch | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 god | det |
| 18 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 becoming | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 next | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 next | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 god | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 formation | punct |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 25 formation | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 formation | det |
| 25 | formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hero | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Danan | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Danan | det |
| 28 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Danan | compound |
| 29 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tuatha | flat |
| 30 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 formation | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 represent | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 represent | nsubj |
| 33 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 formation | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 gods | det |
| 35 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 represent | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 ages | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ages | det |
| 38 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ages | amod |
| 39 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 gods | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the apotheosis of great men | the hero of one epoch and the formation of the Tuatha Danan | forward, tirelessly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | one epoch not said here | the god of the next | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | represent | present | the formation of the Tuatha Danan | the gods of the historic ages | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot god=Theme |
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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