Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 95

"We, the Fianna of Erin, never uttered falsehood, Lying was never attributed to us; By courage and the strength of our hands We used to come out of every difficulty."

Who acts: We · What happens: not utter, not attribute, use, come out · To what, where: Fianna, us, strength, difficulty

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 (We), 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	_	5 Fianna	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 Fianna	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Fianna	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fianna	det
5	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 attributed	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Erin	case
7	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fianna	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 falsehood	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 uttered	advmod
10	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 falsehood	amod
11	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Fianna	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 falsehood	punct
13	Lying	Lying	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fianna	flat
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 attributed	aux:pass
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 attributed	advmod
16	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 attributed	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 courage	punct
20	By	by	ADP	_	21 courage	case
21	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attributed	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strength	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 strength	det
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 courage	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 strength	nmod
28	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 used	nsubj
29	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 strength	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 come	mark
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 used	xcomp
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 difficulty	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 difficulty	case
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 difficulty	det
35	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 courage	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 attributed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not utter speech: other in a quote	participle					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not attribute in a quote	past · passive		the Fianna We of Erin	us	courage and the strength of our hands parataxis	tree rules
3	use in a quote	past	We	the strength of our hands not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent strength=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	come out in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	every difficulty			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient difficulty=Result

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 95