Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 57
To him and to his father the great tumulus of New Grange, upon the Boyne, was sacred.
Who acts: great tumulus · What happens: be
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 (great tumulus), 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 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tumulus | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 father | cc |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 father | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 him | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tumulus | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tumulus | amod |
| 9 | tumulus | tumulus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sacred | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Grange | case |
| 11 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Grange | amod |
| 12 | Grange | Grange | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tumulus | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Boyne | punct |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 Boyne | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Boyne | det |
| 16 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tumulus | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tumulus | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sacred | cop |
| 19 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the great tumulus of New Grange | sacred property | tree rules |
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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