Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 64
The battle of Mucreema was fought by Cairbry's grandfather, Art, against Lewy Mac Conn and the Fianna Eireen.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: fight, battle · To what, where: battle, Mucreema
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 (grandfather), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Mucreema | case |
| 4 | Mucreema | Mucreema | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 battle | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fought | aux:pass |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 grandfather | case |
| 8 | Cairbry | Cairbry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Cairbry | case |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Art | punct |
| 12 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grandfather | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mac | punct |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 Mac | case |
| 15 | Lewy | Lewy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mac | compound |
| 16 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fought | parataxis |
| 17 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mac | flat |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Eireen | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Eireen | det |
| 20 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Eireen | compound |
| 21 | Eireen | Eireen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mac | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · passive | Cairbry's grandfather | the battle of Mucreema | Lewy Mac and the Fianna Eireen parataxis | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | battle | Mucreema | nom battle «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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