Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 47
To what remote unimagined distances of time those earlier cycles extend has been shown by an examination of the tombs of the lower Moy Tura.
Who acts: remote, earlier cycles, examination · What happens: unimagin, extend, show, examine · To what, where: distances, tombs
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 (remote, earlier cycles, examination), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shown | obl |
| 3 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 unimagined | nsubj |
| 4 | unimagined | unimagin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 unimagined | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distances | nmod |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 cycles | det |
| 9 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 cycles | amod |
| 10 | cycles | cycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 extend | nsubj |
| 11 | extend | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shown | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 shown | aux:pass |
| 14 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 examination | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 examination | det |
| 17 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shown | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tombs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tombs | det |
| 20 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 examination | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Tura | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tura | det |
| 23 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 Moy | amod |
| 24 | Moy | Moy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Tura | compound |
| 25 | Tura | Tura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tombs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unimagin | past | remote | distances of time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | extend | present | that earlier cycles | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | present · perfect · passive | a examination of the tombs of the Moy Tura | what obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to what=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | examine | the tombs of the Moy Tura | nom examination «act 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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