Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 91

Astonished at himself, the student, who at first thinks that he has chanced upon a crowd of barbarians, ere long finds himself in the august presence of demi-gods and heroes.

Who acts: student · What happens: astonish, think, chance, find · To what, where: crowd, sublimity, august presence · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (student), 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	Astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 student	advcl
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 himself	case
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Astonished	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 student	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 student	det
6	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finds	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinks	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 thinks	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 thinks	obl
11	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 student	acl:relcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 chanced	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chanced	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 chanced	aux
15	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thinks	ccomp
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 crowd	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 crowd	det
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chanced	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 barbarians	case
20	barbarians	barbarian	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crowd	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
22	ere	ere	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chanced	conj
24	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 finds	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 presence	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 presence	det
28	august	august	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 presence	amod
29	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finds	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 gods	case
31	demi	demi	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gods	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 demi	punct
33	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 presence	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 heroes	cc
35	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gods	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	astonish	participle	the student not said here			at sublimity	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	present	the student				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	chance	present · perfect	student		a crowd of barbarians		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon crowd=Location
4	find	present	the student	sublimity	the august presence of demi gods and heroes		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 91