Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 50
Those heroes who, as Fir-bolgs, received divine honours, lived in the age of stone.
Who acts: heroes · What happens: receive, live · To what, where: divine honours, age
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 (heroes), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 heroes | det |
| 2 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 received | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 received | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bolgs | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 bolgs | case |
| 6 | Fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bolgs | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fir | punct |
| 8 | bolgs | bolg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 received | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bolgs | punct |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 honours | amod |
| 12 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 received | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 received | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 age | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 age | det |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 age | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | that heroes | divine honours | who nsubj; Fir bolgs nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | that heroes not said here | in the age of stone | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location |
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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