Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 68
The transformed children alluded to in Vol. I. were his grand-children.
Who acts: transformed children · What happens: transform, allude, be · To what, where: transformed children, Vol. I., grand children
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 (transformed children), 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 | 3 children | det |
| 2 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 children | nsubj |
| 4 | alluded | allude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 children | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 alluded | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 I. | case |
| 7 | Vol. | Vol. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 I. | compound |
| 8 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 alluded | obl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 children | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 children | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 grand | punct |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | allude | participle | the transformed children not said here | Vol. I. | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the transformed children | I.'s grand children | I. nmod:poss | 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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