Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 11
"THE FLEET OF THE SONS OF MILITH CAME TO IRELAND TO TAKE IT FROM THE TUATHA DE DANAN," i.e., the gods of the ethnic Irish.
Who acts: FLEET · What happens: take · To what, where: CAME, TUATHA DANAN
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FLEET), 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 | _ | 3 FLEET | punct |
| 2 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 FLEET | det |
| 3 | FLEET | FLEET | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 TAKE | nsubj |
| 4 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 6 SONS | case |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 SONS | det |
| 6 | SONS | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 FLEET | nmod |
| 7 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 9 CAME | case |
| 8 | MILITH | MILITH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 CAME | compound |
| 9 | CAME | came | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 SONS | nmod |
| 10 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 11 IRELAND | case |
| 11 | IRELAND | IRELAND | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 CAME | nmod |
| 12 | TO | to | PART | _ | 13 TAKE | mark |
| 13 | TAKE | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | IT | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 TAKE | obj |
| 15 | FROM | from | ADP | _ | 19 DANAN | case |
| 16 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 DANAN | det |
| 17 | TUATHA | TUATHA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 DANAN | compound |
| 18 | DE | DE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 TUATHA | flat |
| 19 | DANAN | DANAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 TAKE | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 i.e. | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 i.e. | punct |
| 22 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 13 TAKE | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gods | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gods | det |
| 25 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 i.e. | appos |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 Irish | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Irish | det |
| 28 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Irish | amod |
| 29 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gods | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 TAKE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | the FLEET of the SONS of MILITH CAME to IRELAND | CAME | the TUATHA DANAN | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme i.e.=Destination |
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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