Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 42
The event of which this epic treats occurred at the time of the Incarnation, and its characters are the leading Irish kings and warriors of that date.
Who acts: event, characters · What happens: occur, lead, be · To what, where: leading Irish kings
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 (event, characters), 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 event | det |
| 2 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occurred | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 occurred | obl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 treats | det |
| 6 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treats | amod |
| 7 | treats | treat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 occurred | nsubj |
| 8 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occurred | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Incarnation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Incarnation | det |
| 14 | Incarnation | Incarnation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kings | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kings | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 characters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 kings | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 kings | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kings | det |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 kings | amod |
| 22 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kings | amod |
| 23 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 occurred | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 warriors | cc |
| 25 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 kings | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 date | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 date | det |
| 28 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 warriors | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | the event | time | which obl; this epic treats nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | event's characters | the leading Irish kings and warriors of that date | warriors of that date conj | 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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