Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 28
Thirdly, all that relates to Nemeth and his sons, their wars with curt Kical the bow-legged, and all that relates to the Fomoroh of the Nemedian epoch, then first moving dimly in the forefront of our history.
Who acts: that, sons · What happens: relate, move, war · To what, where: Nemeth, forefront
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 (that, sons), 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 | Thirdly | thirdly | ADV | _ | 5 relates | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thirdly | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 relates | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 relates | nsubj |
| 5 | relates | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Nemeth | case |
| 7 | Nemeth | Nemeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 relates | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sons | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Nemeth | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wars | punct |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wars | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sons | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Kical | case |
| 15 | curt | curt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Kical | amod |
| 16 | Kical | Kical | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wars | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 legged | det |
| 18 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 legged | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 bow | punct |
| 20 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Kical | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 relates | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 relates | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 relates | det:predet |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 relates | nsubj |
| 25 | relates | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 relates | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Fomoroh | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fomoroh | det |
| 28 | Fomoroh | Fomoroh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 relates | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 epoch | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 epoch | det |
| 31 | Nemedian | Nemedian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 epoch | compound |
| 32 | epoch | epoch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Fomoroh | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 moving | punct |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 moving | advmod |
| 35 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 moving | advmod |
| 36 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 relates | advcl |
| 37 | dimly | dimly | ADV | _ | 36 moving | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 forefront | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 forefront | det |
| 40 | forefront | forefront | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 moving | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 history | case |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 history | nmod:poss |
| 43 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 forefront | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 relates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | that | Nemeth and Partholan's sons and sons's wars with curt Kical | thirdly property | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to nemeth=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | relate | present | that | to the Fomoroh of the Nemedian epoch | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to fomoroh=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | that not said here | the forefront of our history | then | dimly, first property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in forefront=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | war | sons = son | with curt Kical | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=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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