Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 39
Once more, it deals with a particular event in Irish history, and with distinct and definite kings, heroes, and bards, who flourished in the epoch of which it treats.
Who acts: reader, bards · What happens: deal, flourish, treat · To what, where: epoch
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reader, bards), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 deals | mark |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 deals | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 more | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deals | nsubj |
| 5 | deals | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 event | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 event | det |
| 8 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 event | amod |
| 9 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deals | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 history | case |
| 11 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 history | amod |
| 12 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 event | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kings | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kings | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 kings | case |
| 16 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kings | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 definite | cc |
| 18 | definite | definite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distinct | conj |
| 19 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deals | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heroes | punct |
| 21 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kings | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bards | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bards | cc |
| 24 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kings | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 flourished | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 flourished | nsubj |
| 27 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bards | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 epoch | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 epoch | det |
| 30 | epoch | epoch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flourished | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 treats | obl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 treats | nsubj |
| 34 | treats | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 epoch | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | present | reader | with a particular event in Irish history; distinct kings and heroes and bards parataxis | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with event=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flourish | past | bards | the epoch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in epoch=Location | ||||
| 3 | treat | present | reader | of the epoch | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=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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