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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 99

They celebrated his death with funeral lamentations and funeral games, and listened to the bards chanting his prowess, his liberality, and his beauty.

Who acts: people, bards, literature · What happens: celebrate, listen, chant, die · To what, where: death, beauty, prowess

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 (people, bards, 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

nsubjnmod:possobjcasecompoundoblcccompoundconjpunctccparataxiscasedetoblaclnmod:possobjpunctnmod:possconjpunctccnmod:possoblpunctrootTheyPRONcelebratedVERBhisPRONdeathNOUNwithADPfuneralNOUNlamentationsNOUNandCCONJfuneralNOUNgamesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlistenedVERBtoADPtheDETbardsNOUNchantingVERBhisPRONprowessNOUN,PUNCThisPRONliberalityNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONbeautyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 celebratednsubj
2celebratedcelebrateVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 deathnmod:poss
4deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing2 celebratedobj
5withwithADP_7 lamentationscase
6funeralfuneralNOUNNumber=Sing7 lamentationscompound
7lamentationslamentationNOUNNumber=Plur2 celebratedobl
8andandCCONJ_10 gamescc
9funeralfuneralNOUNNumber=Sing10 gamescompound
10gamesgameNOUNNumber=Plur7 lamentationsconj
11,,PUNCT_13 listenedpunct
12andandCCONJ_13 listenedcc
13listenedlistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 celebratedparataxis
14totoADP_16 bardscase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 bardsdet
16bardsbardNOUNNumber=Plur13 listenedobl
17chantingchantVERBVerbForm=Ger16 bardsacl
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 prowessnmod:poss
19prowessprowessNOUNNumber=Sing17 chantingobj
20,,PUNCT_22 liberalitypunct
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 liberalitynmod:poss
22liberalityliberalityNOUNNumber=Sing19 prowessconj
23,,PUNCT_26 beautypunct
24andandCCONJ_26 beautycc
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 beautynmod:poss
26beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing13 listenedobl
27..PUNCT_2 celebratedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1celebratepastpeopleliterature's deathwith funeral lamentations and funeral gamesvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
2listenpastliterature's beautyto the bardsvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bard=Theme
3chantgerundthe bards not said hereliterature's prowess and literature's liberalityvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Topic
4dieliteraturenom death «event intransitive»: 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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