Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 66
"Alone in defence of the Ultonians, Solitary keeping ward over the province"
What happens: keep, defend · To what, where: defence, Ultonians
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 defence | punct |
| 2 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 defence | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 defence | case |
| 4 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ultonians | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ultonians | det |
| 7 | Ultonians | Ultonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 defence | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ward | punct |
| 9 | Solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ward | amod |
| 10 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 ward | amod |
| 11 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 defence | appos |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 province | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 province | det |
| 14 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ward | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | gerund | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | defend in a quote | the Ultonians | nom defence «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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