Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 26
At the commencement should stand the passage from the Book of Invasions, describing the occupation of the isle by Queen Keasair and her companions, and along with it every discoverable tale or poem dealing with this event and those characters.
Who acts: poem · What happens: stand, describe, deal, occupy · To what, where: passage, commencement, occupation, isle
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 (poem), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 commencement | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 commencement | det |
| 3 | commencement | commencement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | obl |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 passage | det |
| 7 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Book | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Book | det |
| 10 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passage | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Invasions | case |
| 12 | Invasions | invasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Book | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 describing | punct |
| 14 | describing | describe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stand | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 occupation | det |
| 16 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 describing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 isle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 isle | det |
| 19 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occupation | nmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Queen | case |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 describing | obl |
| 22 | Keasair | Keasair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Queen | flat |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 companions | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 companions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Queen | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 it | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 it | cc |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stand | obl |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 tale | det |
| 32 | discoverable | discoverable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tale | amod |
| 33 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 it | appos |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 poem | cc |
| 35 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tale | conj |
| 36 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 poem | acl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 event | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 event | det |
| 39 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dealing | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 characters | cc |
| 41 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 characters | det |
| 42 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 event | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | should | the passage | the commencement | from the Book of Invasions; along isle | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent passage=Theme at commencement=Destination | |||
| 2 | describe | gerund | the occupation of the isle | by Queen and Ireland's companions | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occupation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deal | gerund | poem not said here | with this event and that characters | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with event=Theme | ||||
| 4 | occupy | the isle | nom occupation «act transitive»: 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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