Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 23
These are the Tuatha De Danan [Note: A mystery still hangs over this three-formed name.
Who acts: These, mystery · What happens: be, hang, form · To what, where: Tuatha Note, formed name
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 (These, mystery), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 Note | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Note | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Note | det |
| 4 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Note | compound |
| 5 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tuatha | flat |
| 6 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tuatha | flat |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Note | punct |
| 8 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hangs | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mystery | det |
| 11 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hangs | nsubj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 hangs | advmod |
| 13 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Note | parataxis |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 name | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 formed | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 three | punct |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 name | amod |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hangs | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Note | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | the Tuatha Note | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | a mystery | this formed name | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over name=Location | |||
| 3 | form | participle | three compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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