Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 43
The era of Concobar Mac Nessa and the Red Branch knights of Ulster was long subsequent to the floruerunt of the Irish gods and their Titan-like opponents of this latter period, the names alone can be fairly held to be historic.
Who acts: era · What happens: be, hold
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 (era), 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 era | det |
| 2 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 subsequent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Mac | case |
| 4 | Concobar | Concobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mac | compound |
| 5 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 era | nmod |
| 6 | Nessa | Nessa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mac | flat |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knights | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knights | det |
| 9 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knights | amod |
| 10 | Branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knights | compound |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Mac | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ulster | case |
| 13 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 knights | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 subsequent | cop |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 subsequent | amod |
| 16 | subsequent | subsequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 floruerunt | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floruerunt | det |
| 19 | floruerunt | floruerunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 held | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gods | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gods | det |
| 22 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gods | amod |
| 23 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 floruerunt | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 opponents | cc |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 opponents | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Titan | Titan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 opponents | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 like | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 opponents | amod |
| 29 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gods | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 period | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 period | det |
| 32 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 period | amod |
| 33 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 opponents | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 names | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 names | det |
| 36 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gods | conj |
| 37 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 36 names | advmod |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 held | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 held | aux:pass |
| 40 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 41 held | advmod |
| 41 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 subsequent | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 historic | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 historic | cop |
| 44 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 held | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 subsequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the era of Concobar Mac and the Red Branch knights of Ulster | subsequent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | can · passive | the era of Concobar Mac and the Red Branch knights of Ulster not said here | to the floruerunt of the Irish gods and gods's Titan like opponents of this latter period and the names; fairly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the era of Concobar Mac and the Red Branch knights of Ulster not said here | historic property | tree rules |
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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