Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 6
Cuculain having slain the sons of Neara, "thought it unworthy of him to take possession of their chariot and horses."
Who acts: Cuculain · What happens: have, think, take, possess · To what, where: slain, possession, chariot · 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: who acts (Cuculain), 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 | Cuculain | Cuculain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 having | nsubj |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 having | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sons | det |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 having | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Neara | case |
| 7 | Neara | Neara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sons | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 having | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 unworthy | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 unworthy | csubj |
| 17 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chariot | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 20 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 possession | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 horses | cc |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 chariot | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Cuculain | slain | the sons of Neara obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Cuculain not said here | slain | unworthy property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | possession of sons's chariot and horses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||||
| 4 | possess in a quote | sons's chariot and horses | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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