Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 70
Such is the history of Concobar Mac Nessa and his knights--historic fact seen through the eyes of a loving wonder.
What happens: be, see · To what, where: Such history, historic fact, eyes
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: 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 history | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 history | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 history | det |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Mac | case |
| 6 | Concobar | Concobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mac | compound |
| 7 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 history | nmod |
| 8 | Nessa | Nessa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mac | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knights | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knights | nmod:poss |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Mac | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 fact | punct |
| 13 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fact | amod |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knights | conj |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fact | acl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eyes | det |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wonder | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wonder | det |
| 21 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wonder | amod |
| 22 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 history | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Such history | of Concobar Mac and story's knights and historic fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | historic fact not said here | the eyes of a loving wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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