Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 43
Millennium-lasting, and more so, for it is plain that one divine generation represents on the average a much greater space of time than a generation of mortal men.
Who acts: panorama, one divine generation · What happens: be, represent · To what, where: average
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 (panorama, one divine generation), 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 | Millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasting | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Millennium | punct |
| 3 | lasting | lasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 more | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 lasting | conj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plain | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 plain | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 plain | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 plain | cop |
| 12 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lasting | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 represents | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 generation | nummod |
| 15 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 generation | compound |
| 16 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 represents | nsubj |
| 17 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 plain | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 average | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 average | det |
| 20 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 represents | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 space | det |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 greater | advmod |
| 23 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 space | amod |
| 24 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 average | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 space | nmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 generation | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 generation | det |
| 29 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 space | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 men | case |
| 31 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 men | amod |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 generation | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lasting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | panorama | plain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | present | one divine generation | the average a greater space of time than a generation of mortal men | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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