Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 22
The barks of the Phoenicians in the Odyssey.]; there hounds like that one of Ioroway, and spears like fiery flying serpents.
What happens: fly
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: 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 barks | det |
| 2 | barks | bark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Phoenicians | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Phoenicians | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Phoenicians | det |
| 5 | Phoenicians | Phoenician | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Odyssey | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Odyssey | det |
| 8 | Odyssey | Odyssey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Phoenicians | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Phoenicians | punct |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 Phoenicians | punct |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hounds | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 hounds | expl |
| 13 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Phoenicians | appos |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hounds | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ioroway | case |
| 18 | Ioroway | Ioroway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spears | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spears | cc |
| 21 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Phoenicians | appos |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 serpents | case |
| 23 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 serpents | amod |
| 24 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 serpents | amod |
| 25 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spears | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Phoenicians | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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