Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 32
In the seventh, the disconnected tales dealing with those local heroes whose history is not connected with the great cycles, but who in the _fasti_ fill the spaces between the divine period and the heroic.
Who acts: disconnected tales · What happens: disconnect, deal, not connect, fill · To what, where: seventh, spaces
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 (disconnected tales), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 seventh | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seventh | det |
| 3 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 connected | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tales | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tales | det |
| 6 | disconnected | disconnect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tales | amod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seventh | nmod |
| 8 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tales | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 heroes | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 heroes | det |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heroes | amod |
| 12 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dealing | obl |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 history | nmod:poss |
| 14 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heroes | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 connected | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 connected | advmod |
| 17 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 cycles | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cycles | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cycles | amod |
| 21 | cycles | cycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 connected | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fill | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 fill | cc |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 fill | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fasti | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fasti | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 fasti | punct |
| 28 | fasti | fasti | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fill | nsubj |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 fill | punct |
| 30 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 connected | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 spaces | det |
| 32 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fill | obj |
| 33 | between | between | ADP | _ | 36 period | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 period | det |
| 35 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 period | compound |
| 36 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fill | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 heroic | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 heroic | det |
| 39 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 period | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disconnect | participle | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | deal | gerund | the disconnected tales not said here | with that local heroes that local heroes that local heroes's history's history | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hero=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not connect | present · passive | the seventh the disconnected tales | with the great cycles | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: with cycle=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | infinitive | the spaces | between the divine period; who nsubj; the fasti nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=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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