Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 72
He was friendly to Cuculain, and was invoked by seafaring men.
Who acts: most, seafaring men · What happens: be, invoke · To what, where: Cuculain
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 (most, seafaring men), 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 | 3 friendly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | cop |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Cuculain | case |
| 5 | Cuculain | Cuculain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friendly | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 invoked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 invoked | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 invoked | aux:pass |
| 9 | invoked | invoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 friendly | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 men | compound |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 invoked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 friendly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | most | Cuculain | friendly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | invoke | past · passive | seafaring men | 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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