Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 59
He was the patron god of Diarmid, the Paris of Ossian's Fianna, and removed him into Tir-na-n-Og, when he died, having been ripped by the tusks of the wild boar on the peaks of Slieve Gulban.
Who acts: Angus, tusks · What happens: be, remove, die, rip · To what, where: patron god, Angus, Og, peaks
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 (Angus, tusks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 god | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 god | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 god | det |
| 4 | patron | patron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 god | compound |
| 5 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Diarmid | case |
| 7 | Diarmid | Diarmid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 god | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Paris | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Paris | det |
| 10 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Diarmid | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Fianna | case |
| 12 | Ossian | Ossian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fianna | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Ossian | case |
| 14 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Paris | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 removed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 removed | cc |
| 17 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 god | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 removed | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 Og | case |
| 20 | Tir | Tir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Og | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tir | punct |
| 22 | na | na | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 n | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 na | punct |
| 24 | n | n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Og | nmod:desc |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Og | punct |
| 26 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 removed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 died | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 died | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 died | nsubj |
| 30 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Og | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ripped | punct |
| 32 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 ripped | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 ripped | aux:pass |
| 34 | ripped | rip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 died | advcl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 tusks | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tusks | det |
| 37 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ripped | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 boar | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 boar | det |
| 40 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 boar | amod |
| 41 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tusks | nmod |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 peaks | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 peaks | det |
| 44 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ripped | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Slieve | case |
| 46 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 peaks | nmod |
| 47 | Gulban | Gulban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Slieve | flat |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 god | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Angus | the patron god | of Diarmid the Paris of Ossian's Fianna | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remove | past | Angus | Og Tir na n | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | past | Angus | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | rip | gerund · perfect · passive | the tusks of the wild boar | the peaks of Slieve | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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