Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 36
It was, indeed, a favourite fancy of the bards that not Sualtam, but Lu Lamfada himself, was his father; this, however, in a spiritual or supernatural sense, for his age was far removed from that of the Tuatha De Danan, and falling well within the scope of the historic period.
Who acts: imagination, Lu, spiritual sense · What happens: be, remove, fall, fancy · To what, where: father, age, spiritual sense, bards
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 (imagination, Lu, spiritual sense), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fancy | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 fancy | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fancy | det |
| 7 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fancy | amod |
| 8 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bards | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bards | det |
| 11 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fancy | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Sualtam | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Sualtam | advmod |
| 14 | Sualtam | Sualtam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bards | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 father | cc |
| 17 | Lu | Lu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 father | nsubj |
| 18 | Lamfada | Lamfada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lu | flat |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 Lu | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lu | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 father | cop |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Sualtam | appos |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sualtam | punct |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Sualtam | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 however | punct |
| 27 | however | however | ADV | _ | 14 Sualtam | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 however | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 sense | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sense | det |
| 31 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sense | amod |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 supernatural | cc |
| 33 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 spiritual | conj |
| 34 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 however | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 removed | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 removed | mark |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 age | nmod:poss |
| 38 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 removed | aux:pass |
| 40 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 removed | advmod |
| 41 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 sense | acl:relcl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 that | case |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 removed | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Danan | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Danan | det |
| 46 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Danan | compound |
| 47 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Tuatha | flat |
| 48 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 that | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 scope | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 scope | cc |
| 51 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 55 scope | csubj |
| 52 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 falling | advmod |
| 53 | within | within | ADP | _ | 55 scope | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 scope | det |
| 55 | scope | scope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Danan | appos |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 period | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 period | det |
| 58 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 period | amod |
| 59 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 scope | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | imagination | a favourite fancy of the bards Sualtam that ccomp | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Lu Lu | Lu's father | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remove | past · passive | a spiritual sense not said here | Lu's age | a spiritual sense | far property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from that=Source | ||
| 4 | fall | gerund | well property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fancy | the bards Sualtam that | nom fancy «cognition 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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