Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 10

A youth came once to the Fianna Eireen encamped at Locha Lein [Note: The Lakes of Killarney.], leading a hound dazzling white, like snow.

Who acts: youth, Fianna Eireen, hound · What happens: come, encamp, lead, dazzle · To what, where: Locha, hound, white

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Fianna Eireen, hound), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 encamped	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Eireen	det
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Eireen	compound
8	Eireen	Eireen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 encamped	nsubj
9	encamped	encamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Locha	case
11	Locha	Locha	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 encamped	obl
12	Lein	Lein	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Locha	flat
13	[	[	PUNCT	_	14 Note	punct
14	Note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Locha	appos
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Lakes	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Lakes	det
17	Lakes	Lake	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 Note	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Killarney	case
19	Killarney	Killarney	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lakes	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Note	punct
21	]	]	PUNCT	_	14 Note	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leading	punct
23	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 encamped	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hound	det
25	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leading	obj
26	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 hound	acl
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dazzling	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 snow	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 snow	case
30	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dazzling	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a youth			once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	encamp	past	the Fianna Eireen		Locha		tree rules
3	lead	gerund	the Fianna Eireen not said here	a hound			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Theme
4	dazzle	gerund	a hound not said here	white		like snow	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus white=Experiencer

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 5, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 10