Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 96
Again: Fergus, the bard, inciting Oscar to his last battle--in that poem called the Rosc Catha of Oscar:--
Who acts: bard, Oscar · What happens: incite, call, battle · To what, where: Oscar, poem · 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 (bard, Oscar), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fergus | punct |
| 3 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bard | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bard | det |
| 6 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fergus | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 inciting | punct |
| 8 | inciting | incite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bard | acl |
| 9 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 inciting | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 battle | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 battle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 battle | amod |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inciting | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 poem | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 poem | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 poem | det |
| 17 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 battle | appos |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 poem | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Catha | det |
| 20 | Rosc | Rosc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Catha | compound |
| 21 | Catha | Catha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Oscar | case |
| 23 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Catha | nmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incite | gerund | the bard not said here | Oscar | to Oscar's last battle | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition oscar=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | that poem not said here | the Rosc Catha of Oscar xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | battle | Oscar | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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