Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 98
When a king died, his people raised his ferta, set up his stone, and engraved upon it, at least in later times, his name in ogham.
Who acts: king, people, literature · What happens: die, raise, set up, engrave, name · To what, where: ferta, stone, ogham
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 (king, people, literature), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 died | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 raised | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 raised | nsubj |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ferta | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ferta | ferta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raised | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 raised | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stone | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 engraved | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 engraved | cc |
| 18 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 raised | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 engraved | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 times | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 least | case |
| 23 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 times | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 times | case |
| 25 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 times | amod |
| 26 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 engraved | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 name | punct |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 name | nmod:poss |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 engraved | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 ogham | case |
| 31 | ogham | ogham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 name | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | a king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | raise | past | literature's people | literature's ferta | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ferta=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set up | participle | literature's people not said here | literature's stone | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient stone=Result | ||||
| 4 | engrave | participle | literature's people not said here | stone | time | literature's name in ogham parataxis | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination | ||
| 5 | name | literature | ogham | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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