Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 86
The use of Ogham was partially practised in the Christian period for sepultural purposes, being venerable and sacred from time.
What happens: practise, be, use · To what, where: use, Christian period, Ogham
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 use | det |
| 2 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 practised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ogham | case |
| 4 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 use | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 practised | aux:pass |
| 6 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 7 practised | advmod |
| 7 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 period | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 period | det |
| 10 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 period | amod |
| 11 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 practised | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 purposes | case |
| 13 | sepultural | sepultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 purposes | amod |
| 14 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 practised | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 venerable | punct |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 venerable | cop |
| 17 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 purposes | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sacred | cc |
| 19 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 venerable | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 venerable | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 practised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise | past · passive | the use of Ogham | the Christian period | for sepultural purposes; partially property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | time | venerable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | use | Ogham | nom use «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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