Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 62
"'Our ancestors fell there By force of the treachery of the Fians; Remember the hard tributes, Remember the extraordinary pride.'"
Who acts: ancestors · What happens: fall, remember · To what, where: hard tributes, extraordinary pride
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 (ancestors), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 3 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | By | by | ADP | _ | 8 force | case |
| 8 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 treachery | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treachery | det |
| 11 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 force | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Fians | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fians | det |
| 14 | Fians | Fian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 treachery | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Remember | punct |
| 16 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fell | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tributes | det |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tributes | amod |
| 19 | tributes | tribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Remember | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Remember | punct |
| 21 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Remember | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pride | det |
| 23 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pride | amod |
| 24 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Remember | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | past | Our ancestors | there | by force of the treachery of the Fians | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by force=Location | |||
| 2 | remember in a quote | infinitive | Our ancestors not said here | the hard tributes | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remember in a quote | infinitive | Our ancestors not said here | the extraordinary pride | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pride=Theme |
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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