Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 49
The ard-ollav ranked next to the king, and his eric was kingly.
Who acts: eric · What happens: rank, be · To what, where: ard ollav
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 (eric), 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 | 4 ollav | det |
| 2 | ard | ard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ollav | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ard | punct |
| 4 | ollav | ollav | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ranked | rank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ollav | acl |
| 6 | next | next | ADV | _ | 5 ranked | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ranked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kingly | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kingly | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eric | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eric | eric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kingly | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kingly | cop |
| 15 | kingly | kingly | ADV | _ | 4 ollav | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kingly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | participle | the ard ollav not said here | to the king; next property | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | authority's eric | kingly 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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