Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 27
Limitless, this divine population, dwelling in all the seas and estuaries, river and lakes, mountains and fairy dells, in that enchanted Erin which was theirs.
Who acts: divine population, that, Erin · What happens: dwell, enchant, be · To what, where: seas, Erin, dells, divine population
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 (divine population, that, Erin), 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 | Limitless | Limitless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 population | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 population | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 population | det |
| 4 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 population | amod |
| 5 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwelling | punct |
| 7 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 population | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 seas | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 seas | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seas | det |
| 11 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwelling | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 estuaries | cc |
| 13 | estuaries | estuary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seas | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 river | punct |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seas | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lakes | cc |
| 17 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seas | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mountains | punct |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seas | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dells | cc |
| 21 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dells | compound |
| 22 | dells | dell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seas | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 enchanted | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 enchanted | nsubj |
| 26 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 population | conj |
| 27 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 enchanted | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 theirs | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 theirs | cop |
| 30 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Erin | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 population | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | this divine population Limitless not said here | all seas and estuaries and river and lakes and mountains and fairy dells | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | enchant | past | that | Erin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus erin=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Erin | dells = dell | tree rules |
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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