Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 15
The spirit of Coelte, visiting one far removed in time from the great captain of the Fianna, with a different name and different history, cries:--
Who acts: spirit · What happens: visit, remove, cry · To what, where: one
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 (spirit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cries | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Coelte | case |
| 4 | Coelte | Coelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spirit | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 visiting | punct |
| 6 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 spirit | acl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 visiting | obj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 removed | advmod |
| 9 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 one | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 removed | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 captain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captain | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 captain | amod |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Fianna | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fianna | det |
| 18 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 captain | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 name | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 name | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 name | det |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 name | amod |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visiting | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 history | cc |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 history | amod |
| 26 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 name | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spirit | punct |
| 28 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 cries | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 cries | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | the spirit of Coelte not said here | one | a different name and different history obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remove | participle | time | far property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | the spirit of Coelte | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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