Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 11
The Irish heroic tales have their source in, and draw their interest from, the mounds and those laid in them.
Who acts: Irish heroic tales, tales · What happens: have, draw, lay, interest · To what, where: source, interest, mounds
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irish heroic tales, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 3 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 source | nmod:poss |
| 7 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 draw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 draw | cc |
| 11 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 interest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 draw | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 mounds | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mounds | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mounds | det |
| 17 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 draw | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 those | cc |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 mounds | conj |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 those | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Irish heroic tales | tales's source | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw | infinitive | tales's interest | the mounds those | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent interest=Theme from mound=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | participle | in tales = tale | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in they=Destination | |||||
| 4 | interest | tales = tale | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
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