Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 8
[Note: Certain vows taken with their arms on being knighted.]
What happens: take, knight · To what, where: Certain, Note
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Note | punct |
| 2 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 4 | Certain | Certain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | vows | vow | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Note | acl:relcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taken | obl |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 knighted | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 knighted | aux:pass |
| 12 | knighted | knight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 taken | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Note | punct |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Note | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | Certain | with heroes's arms | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | knight | gerund · passive | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP» |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/5/8/