Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 19
The marvellous is supplied with greater abundance in the account of the battle of Clontarf, and the wars of the O'Briens with the Normans, than in the tale in which is described the foundation of Emain Macha by Kimbay.
Who acts: Kimbay, O'Briens · What happens: supply, describe, account, battle, war · To what, where: marvellous, foundation, tale, battle, Clontarf
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kimbay, O'Briens), 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 marvellous | det |
| 2 | marvellous | marvellous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 supplied | aux:pass |
| 4 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 abundance | case |
| 6 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 abundance | amod |
| 7 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supplied | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 account | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 account | det |
| 10 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 abundance | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 battle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 battle | det |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 account | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Clontarf | case |
| 15 | Clontarf | Clontarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 battle | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wars | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wars | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wars | det |
| 19 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 supplied | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 O'Briens | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 O'Briens | det |
| 22 | O'Briens | O'brien | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 wars | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Normans | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Normans | det |
| 25 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 wars | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tale | punct |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 tale | case |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 tale | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tale | det |
| 30 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supplied | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 described | obl |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 described | aux:pass |
| 34 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 tale | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 foundation | det |
| 36 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 described | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Emain | case |
| 38 | Emain | Emain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 foundation | nmod |
| 39 | Macha | Macha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Emain | flat |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 Kimbay | case |
| 41 | Kimbay | Kimbay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 described | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supplied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | present · passive | the marvellous | with greater abundance in the account of the battle of Clontarf; the wars of the O'Briens with the Normans conj; the tale parataxis | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with abundance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | describe | present · passive | Kimbay | the foundation of Emain | the tale | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme | |||
| 3 | account | the battle of Clontarf | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | battle | Clontarf | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | war | the O'Briens | with the Normans | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent with=obl |
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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