Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 30
For instance, in the "Great Breach of Murthemney," we find Laeg at one moment killed, and in the next riding black Shanglan off the field.
Who acts: we, one moment · What happens: find, kill · To what, where: Laeg, black Shanglan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, one moment), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 instance | case |
| 2 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Breach | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Breach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Breach | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Breach | punct |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Breach | amod |
| 8 | Breach | Breach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 instance | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Murthemney | case |
| 10 | Murthemney | Murthemney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Breach | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instance | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Laeg | Laeg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 moment | nummod |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | nsubj |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Shanglan | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Shanglan | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 riding | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 riding | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 riding | amod |
| 25 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Shanglan | obl |
| 26 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Shanglan | amod |
| 27 | Shanglan | Shanglan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | obl |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 field | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 field | det |
| 30 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Shanglan | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | we | Laeg | for instance in the Great Breach of Murthemney | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent laeg=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past | one moment | black Shanglan in the next riding off the field | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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