Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 83
Its chief use was to preserve the name of buried kings and heroes in the stone that was set above their tombs.
Who acts: chief use, derivative · What happens: be, bury, set, use, name · To what, where: stone, tombs, buried 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 (chief use, derivative), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 use | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 use | amod |
| 3 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preserve | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 preserve | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 preserve | mark |
| 6 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preserve | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kings | case |
| 10 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 kings | amod |
| 11 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 name | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heroes | cc |
| 13 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kings | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 stone | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preserve | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 set | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 set | aux:pass |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 tombs | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tombs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 set | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 preserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | derivative's chief use | the stone | the name of buried kings and heroes obj; preserve property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | set | past · passive | the stone | heroes's tombs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme above tomb=Destination | ||||
| 4 | use | derivative | nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | buried kings and heroes | nom name «communication 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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