Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 29
After that, the great Fir-bolgic cycle, a cycle janus-faced, looking on one side to the mythological period and the wars of the gods, and on the other, to the heroic, and more particularly to the Ultonian cycle.
Who acts: gods · What happens: look, war
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 (gods), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cycle | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cycle | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cycle | amod |
| 6 | Fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bolgic | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fir | punct |
| 8 | bolgic | bolgic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cycle | amod |
| 9 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 that | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 faced | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 faced | det |
| 12 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 janus | compound |
| 13 | janus | janus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 faced | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 janus | punct |
| 15 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cycle | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 faced | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 side | nummod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 period | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 period | det |
| 23 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 period | amod |
| 24 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wars | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wars | det |
| 27 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 period | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gods | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gods | det |
| 30 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wars | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 other | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 other | cc |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 other | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 other | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faced | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 heroic | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 heroic | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 heroic | det |
| 39 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 other | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 cycle | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 cycle | cc |
| 42 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 43 particularly | advmod |
| 43 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 47 cycle | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 cycle | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 cycle | det |
| 46 | Ultonian | Ultonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 cycle | compound |
| 47 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 heroic | parataxis |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cycle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | to the mythological period and the wars of the gods; on one side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | |||||
| 3 | war | the gods | nom war «act intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/2/29/