Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 62

The latter was argurgurotoxos [Transcriber's Note: Greek in the original], but Lu was a sling bearing god.

Who acts: latter, Lu, sling · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: Note, sling, god

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 (latter, Lu, sling), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 latter	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Note	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Note	cop
4	argurgurotoxos	argurgurotoxo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Note	nsubj
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	8 Note	punct
6	Transcriber	Transcriber	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Note	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Transcriber	case
8	Note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Greek	punct
10	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Note	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 original	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 original	det
13	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Greek	obl
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 Greek	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sling	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 sling	cc
17	Lu	Lu	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sling	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sling	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sling	det
20	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Note	appos
21	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sling	acl
22	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bearing	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Note	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the latter	Transcriber's Note	argurgurotoxos nsubj; Transcriber nmod:poss	tree rules
2	is a	past	Lu	a sling		tree rules
3	bear	gerund	a sling not said here	god		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=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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🌲 Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 62