Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 45
From Angus Og, the god of youth and love and beauty, whose fit home was the woody slopes of the Boyne, where it winds around Rosnaree, we count fourteen generations to Nemedh and four to Partholan, and Partholan is not the earliest.
Who acts: fit home, home, we, Angus · What happens: be, wind, count, not be · To what, where: woody slopes, Rosnaree, fourteen generations
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 (fit home, home, we, Angus), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 Angus | case |
| 2 | Angus | Angus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 earliest | nsubj |
| 3 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Angus | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 god | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 god | det |
| 6 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Angus | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 youth | case |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 god | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 love | cc |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 god | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beauty | cc |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 god | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slopes | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slopes | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slopes | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 slopes | det |
| 19 | woody | woody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 slopes | amod |
| 20 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beauty | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Boyne | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Boyne | det |
| 23 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 slopes | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 winds | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 winds | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 winds | nsubj |
| 27 | winds | wind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Boyne | acl:relcl |
| 28 | around | around | ADP | _ | 29 Rosnaree | case |
| 29 | Rosnaree | Rosnaree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 winds | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 count | punct |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 count | nsubj |
| 32 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 winds | conj |
| 33 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 generations | nummod |
| 34 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 count | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Nemedh | case |
| 36 | Nemedh | Nemedh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 generations | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 four | cc |
| 38 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 generations | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Partholan | case |
| 40 | Partholan | Partholan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 four | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 earliest | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 earliest | cc |
| 43 | Partholan | Partholan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 earliest | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 earliest | cop |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 earliest | advmod |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 earliest | det |
| 47 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 earliest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the woody slopes's fit home | the woody slopes | of the Boyne | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wind | present | home | Rosnaree | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around rosnaree=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | count | present | we | fourteen generations | to Nemedh | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent generation=Theme to nemedh=be' | |||
| 4 | not is | present | Angus | Partholan nsubj; early property | 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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