Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 56
Poor Ireland, with her hundred ancient epics, standing at the door of the temple of fame, or, indeed, quite behind the vestibule out of the way!
Who acts: hundred ancient epics · What happens: stand · To what, where: door
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 (hundred ancient epics), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ireland | amod |
| 2 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 epics | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 epics | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 epics | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 epics | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 epics | nummod |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 epics | amod |
| 8 | epics | epic | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 standing | punct |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 epics | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 temple | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 temple | det |
| 16 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fame | case |
| 18 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 temple | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vestibule | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 vestibule | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 or | punct |
| 22 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 27 vestibule | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vestibule | punct |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 vestibule | advmod |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 vestibule | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 vestibule | det |
| 27 | vestibule | vestibule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 epics | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vestibule | nmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 epics | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | Ireland's hundred ancient epics Poor Ireland or the vestibule out the way not said here | the door of the temple of fame | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
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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