Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 44
The Tuatha De Danan of the ancient Irish are the final outcome and last development of a mythology which we can see advancing step by step, one divine tribe pushing out another, one family of gods swallowing up another, or perishing under the hands of time and change, to make room for another.
Who acts: we, one divine tribe, gods · What happens: be, see, push out, swallow up, perish, make · To what, where: mythology, another, hands, room, 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 (we, one divine tribe, gods), 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 | 4 Danan | det |
| 2 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Danan | compound |
| 3 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tuatha | flat |
| 4 | Danan | Danan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 outcome | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 outcome | det |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 outcome | amod |
| 8 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 outcome | amod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 outcome | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 outcome | det |
| 11 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 outcome | amod |
| 12 | outcome | outcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Danan | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 development | cc |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 development | amod |
| 15 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 outcome | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mythology | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mythology | det |
| 18 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 development | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 see | obj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 mythology | acl:relcl |
| 23 | advancing | advancing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 step | amod |
| 24 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 step | case |
| 26 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tribe | punct |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 tribe | nummod |
| 29 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tribe | amod |
| 30 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Danan | appos |
| 31 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 tribe | acl |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 pushing | compound:prt |
| 33 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 pushing | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 family | punct |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 family | nummod |
| 36 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Danan | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 gods | case |
| 38 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 family | nmod |
| 39 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 gods | acl |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 swallowing | compound:prt |
| 41 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 swallowing | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 perishing | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 perishing | cc |
| 44 | perishing | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 swallowing | conj |
| 45 | under | under | ADP | _ | 47 hands | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 hands | det |
| 47 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 perishing | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 time | case |
| 49 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hands | nmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 change | cc |
| 51 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 time | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 make | punct |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 make | mark |
| 54 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 perishing | conj |
| 55 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 make | obj |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 another | case |
| 57 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 55 room | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Danan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of the ancient Irish final outcome and last development of a mythology; last development of a mythology conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | can | we | a mythology | by step; advancing step obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | push out | gerund | one divine tribe not said here | another | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swallow up | gerund | gods not said here | another | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient | ||||
| 5 | perish | gerund | gods not said here | the hands of time and change | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | gods not said here | room | for another | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for another=Asset | |||
| 8 | develop | a mythology | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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