Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 38

When the Irish bards began to elaborate a general history of their country, they naturally commenced with the enumeration of the elder gods.

Who acts: Irish bards, bards · What happens: begin, elaborate, commence, enumerate · To what, where: general history, elder 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 (Irish bards, bards), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 began	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bards	det
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bards	amod
4	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 commenced	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 elaborate	mark
7	elaborate	elaborate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 history	det
9	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 history	amod
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 elaborate	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 country	nmod:poss
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 history	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 commenced	nsubj
16	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	17 commenced	advmod
17	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 enumeration	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 enumeration	det
20	enumeration	enumeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 commenced	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 gods	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gods	det
23	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gods	amod
24	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 enumeration	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 commenced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Irish bards			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	elaborate speech: other	to-infinitive	the Irish bards not said here	a general history of bards's country		tree rules
3	commence	past	bards = bard		with the enumeration of the elder gods; naturally property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with enumeration=Subeventuality
4	enumerate			the elder gods		nom enumeration «communication 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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 38