Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 37
Even as late as the time of Alexander, the Greeks could believe a great contemporary warrior to be of divine origin, and the son of Zeus.
Who acts: Greeks · What happens: believe, be · To what, where: great contemporary warrior
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 (Greeks), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 late | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 late | advmod |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 late | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Alexander | case |
| 8 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 believe | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Alexander | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Greeks | det |
| 11 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 believe | aux |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 warrior | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 warrior | amod |
| 16 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 warrior | amod |
| 17 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 believe | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 origin | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 origin | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 origin | case |
| 21 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 origin | amod |
| 22 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warrior | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 son | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 son | det |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warrior | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Zeus | case |
| 28 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | the Greeks | a great contemporary warrior and the son of Zeus | of Alexander | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the Greeks not said here | a great contemporary warrior and the son of Zeus not said here | of divine origin | tree rules |
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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