Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods., sentence 2
Though their worship was extended over Ireland, which is shown by the many different places connected with their history, yet the hill of Tallaght, ten miles from Dublin, was where they were chiefly adored.
Who acts: many different places, father · What happens: extend, show, connect, be, worship · To what, where: worship, Ireland, many different places, hill
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many different places, father), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 extended | mark |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 worship | nmod:poss |
| 3 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 extended | aux:pass |
| 5 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 Ireland | case |
| 7 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 extended | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shown | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 shown | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shown | aux:pass |
| 11 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 extended | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 places | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 places | det |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 places | amod |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 places | amod |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shown | obl |
| 17 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 places | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 history | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 history | nmod:poss |
| 20 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 connected | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 adored | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 38 adored | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hill | det |
| 24 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 adored | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Tallaght | case |
| 26 | Tallaght | Tallaght | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hill | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 miles | punct |
| 28 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 miles | nummod |
| 29 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hill | conj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Dublin | case |
| 31 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 miles | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hill | punct |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 adored | cop |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 adored | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 adored | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 adored | aux:pass |
| 37 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 38 adored | advmod |
| 38 | adored | adore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 extended | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | past · passive | father's worship | Ireland | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | present · passive | the many different places | which nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | connect | participle | the many different places not said here | with father's history | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with history=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past · passive | the hill of Tallaght and ten miles from Dublin | adore, chiefly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | worship | father | nom worship «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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