Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 71
Mananan was the god of the sea, of winds and storms, and most skilled in magic lore.
Who acts: Mananan · What happens: be, skill · To what, where: god, most, magic lore
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 (Mananan), 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 | Mananan | Mananan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 god | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 god | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 winds | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 winds | case |
| 10 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 god | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 storms | cc |
| 12 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 winds | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 skilled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 skilled | cc |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 skilled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 god | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 lore | case |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lore | amod |
| 19 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skilled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 god | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mananan | the god and winds and storms | of the sea; winds and storms conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | skill | participle · passive | most | magic lore | 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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