Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 40
The age of the predominance of Ulster does not clash with the age of the predominance of Tara; the Temairian kings are not mixed with the contemporary Fians.
Who acts: age, Ulster, Tara · What happens: not clash, not mix, predominate · To what, where: Temairian kings
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 (age, Ulster, Tara), 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 | 10 clash | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 predominance | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 predominance | det |
| 5 | predominance | predominance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 age | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ulster | case |
| 7 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 predominance | nmod |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 clash | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 clash | advmod |
| 10 | clash | clash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 age | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 age | det |
| 13 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clash | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 predominance | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 predominance | det |
| 16 | predominance | predominance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 age | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Tara | case |
| 18 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 predominance | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 mixed | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kings | det |
| 21 | Temairian | temairian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kings | amod |
| 22 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mixed | aux:pass |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 mixed | advmod |
| 25 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 clash | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Fians | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Fians | det |
| 28 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Fians | amod |
| 29 | Fians | Fian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 mixed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 clash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not clash | present · do-support | the age of the predominance of Ulster | with the age of the predominance of Tara | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with age=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not mix | present · passive | the Temairian kings | with the contemporary Fians | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with fian=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | predominate | Ulster | nom predominance «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | predominate | Tara | nom predominance «state intransitive»: of=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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