Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 69
It was his goldsmith Len, who gave its ancient name to the Lakes of Killarney, Locha Lein.
Who acts: latter, goldsmith · What happens: be, give, name · To what, where: goldsmith, ancient name, Lakes
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, goldsmith), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goldsmith | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 goldsmith | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 goldsmith | nmod:poss |
| 4 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Len | Len | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goldsmith | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 goldsmith | acl:relcl |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Lakes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lakes | det |
| 14 | Lakes | Lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Killarney | case |
| 16 | Killarney | Killarney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lakes | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Locha | punct |
| 18 | Locha | Locha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Killarney | conj |
| 19 | Lein | Lein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Locha | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goldsmith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | latter | I.'s goldsmith | I. nmod:poss; Len appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | I.'s goldsmith | latter's ancient name | the Lakes of Killarney and Locha | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to lake=Recipient | |||
| 3 | name | latter | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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