Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 8
The last of the mythological cycles is that of the Tuatha De Danan, whose character, attributes, and history will, I hope, be rendered interesting and intelligible in my account of Cuculain and the Red Branch of Ulster.
Who acts: that, I, my · What happens: be, attribute, hope, render, account · To what, where: account, Cuculain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, I, my), 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 last | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cycles | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cycles | det |
| 5 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cycles | amod |
| 6 | cycles | cycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 last | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Tuatha | cop |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Tuatha | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Tuatha | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tuatha | det |
| 11 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 last | nmod |
| 12 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tuatha | flat |
| 13 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tuatha | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 character | punct |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 character | nmod:poss |
| 16 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Danan | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attributes | punct |
| 18 | attributes | attribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Danan | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 will | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 will | cc |
| 21 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 will | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 attributes | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hope | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hope | nsubj |
| 25 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 attributes | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rendered | punct |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 rendered | aux:pass |
| 28 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 hope | ccomp |
| 29 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rendered | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 intelligible | cc |
| 31 | intelligible | intelligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 interesting | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 account | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 account | nmod:poss |
| 34 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rendered | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Cuculain | case |
| 36 | Cuculain | Cuculain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 account | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Branch | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Branch | det |
| 39 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Branch | flat |
| 40 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Cuculain | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Ulster | case |
| 42 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Branch | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | of the Tuatha | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attribute | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | render | infinitive · passive | my account of Cuculain and the Red Branch of Ulster | interesting property | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient» | ||||
| 6 | account | my | Cuculain and the Red Branch of Ulster | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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