Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 43
The ancestry of the Irish gods is not bounded by a single generation or by twenty.
Who acts: single generation · What happens: not bound · To what, where: ancestry
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 (single generation), 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 ancestry | det |
| 2 | ancestry | ancestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bounded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gods | det |
| 5 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gods | amod |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ancestry | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bounded | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 bounded | advmod |
| 9 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 generation | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 generation | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 generation | amod |
| 13 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bounded | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 twenty | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 twenty | case |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 generation | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bound | present · passive | a single generation | the ancestry of the Irish gods | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=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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