Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 4
Even in the time of Keating, Irish families traced thither their pedigrees.
Who acts: Irish families · What happens: trace · To what, where: pedigrees
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 families), 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 | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 traced | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Keating | case |
| 6 | Keating | Keating | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 families | punct |
| 8 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 families | amod |
| 9 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 traced | nsubj |
| 10 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 13 pedigrees | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pedigrees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pedigrees | pedigree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 traced | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | past | Irish families | families's pedigrees | time | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedigree=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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