Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 29
The age and the heroes around whom that cycle revolves have, in the history of Ireland, a definite position in time; their battles, characters, several achievements, relationships, and pedigrees; their Duns, and trysting-places, and tombs; their wives, musicians, and bards; their tributes, and sufferings, and triumphs; their internecine and other wars--are all fully and clearly described in the Ossianic cycle.
Who acts: cycle, age, heroes · What happens: revolve, have, tryst, be, describe, battle · To what, where: history, internecine, Ossianic cycle
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 (cycle, age, heroes), 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 age | det |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heroes | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heroes | det |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 age | conj |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 whom | case |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 heroes | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cycle | det |
| 9 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 revolves | nsubj |
| 10 | revolves | revolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 whom | acl:relcl |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 history | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 history | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 history | det |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 history | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 position | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 position | det |
| 20 | definite | definite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 position | amod |
| 21 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 history | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 position | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 battles | punct |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 battles | nmod:poss |
| 26 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 characters | punct |
| 28 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 battles | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 achievements | punct |
| 30 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 achievements | amod |
| 31 | achievements | achievement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 battles | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 relationships | punct |
| 33 | relationships | relationship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 battles | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pedigrees | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 pedigrees | cc |
| 36 | pedigrees | pedigree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 battles | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 Duns | punct |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 Duns | nmod:poss |
| 39 | Duns | dun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 places | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 places | cc |
| 42 | trysting | tryst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 places | amod |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 trysting | punct |
| 44 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Duns | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tombs | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 tombs | cc |
| 47 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Duns | conj |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 wives | punct |
| 49 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 wives | nmod:poss |
| 50 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Duns | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 musicians | punct |
| 52 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 wives | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 bards | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 bards | cc |
| 55 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 wives | conj |
| 56 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 tributes | punct |
| 57 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 tributes | nmod:poss |
| 58 | tributes | tribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | parataxis |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 sufferings | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 sufferings | cc |
| 61 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 tributes | conj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 triumphs | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 triumphs | cc |
| 64 | triumphs | triumph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 tributes | conj |
| 65 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 67 internecine | punct |
| 66 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 internecine | nmod:poss |
| 67 | internecine | internecine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 tributes | conj |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 wars | cc |
| 69 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 wars | amod |
| 70 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 67 internecine | conj |
| 71 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 74 fully | punct |
| 72 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 74 fully | cop |
| 73 | all | all | ADV | _ | 74 fully | advmod |
| 74 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 77 described | advmod |
| 75 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 76 clearly | cc |
| 76 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 74 fully | conj |
| 77 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 67 internecine | acl |
| 78 | in | in | ADP | _ | 81 cycle | case |
| 79 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 81 cycle | det |
| 80 | Ossianic | Ossianic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 81 cycle | compound |
| 81 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 described | obl |
| 82 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revolve | present | that cycle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the age and the heroes around the age and the heroes around the age | the history of Ireland and a definite position in time | heroes's battles and characters and several achievements and relationships and pedigrees parataxis; pedigrees's Duns and trysting places and tombs and tombs's wives and musicians and bards parataxis; bard's tributes and sufferings and triumphs and triumphs's internecine and other wars parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | |||
| 3 | tryst | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | all, fully property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | describe | participle | triumphs's internecine and other wars not said here | the Ossianic cycle | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | battle | heroes = hero | 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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