Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 12
Elsewhere, he is said to have been more terrible than the sun upon his flaming wheels.
What happens: say, be · To what, where: Eireen · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Elsewhere | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 terrible | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 terrible | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 terrible | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 terrible | advmod |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 terrible | obl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 wheels | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wheels | compound |
| 17 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 terrible | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Eireen | elsewhere property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive · perfect | than the sun; upon Eireen's flaming wheels; terrible property | tree rules |
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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