Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods., sentence 3
Here to the present day are the mounds and barrows raised in honour of the deified heroes of this cycle, PARTHOLAN himself, his wife Delgna, his sons, Rury, Slaney, and Laighlinni, and among others, the father of Irish hospitality, bearing the expressive name of Beer.
Who acts: mounds · What happens: be, raise, deify, bear, honour, name · To what, where: mounds, honour, expressive name, deified heroes, Beer
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 (mounds), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mounds | det |
| 8 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 barrows | cc |
| 10 | barrows | barrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mounds | conj |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mounds | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 honour | case |
| 13 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heroes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heroes | det |
| 16 | deified | deify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 heroes | amod |
| 17 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 honour | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cycle | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 cycle | det |
| 20 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heroes | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 22 | PARTHOLAN | PARTHOLAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | list |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 PARTHOLAN | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 27 | Delgna | Delgna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 wife | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sons | punct |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sons | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 wife | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Rury | punct |
| 32 | Rury | Rury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sons | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Slaney | punct |
| 34 | Slaney | Slaney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Rury | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Laighlinni | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Laighlinni | cc |
| 37 | Laighlinni | Laighlinni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Rury | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 others | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 others | cc |
| 40 | among | among | ADP | _ | 41 others | case |
| 41 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Rury | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 father | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 father | det |
| 44 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Rury | appos |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 hospitality | case |
| 46 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 hospitality | amod |
| 47 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 father | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 bearing | punct |
| 49 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 wife | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 name | det |
| 51 | expressive | expressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 name | amod |
| 52 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bearing | obj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Beer | case |
| 54 | Beer | Beer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 name | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the mounds and barrows | day | PARTHOLAN PARTHOLAN list; PARTHOLAN's wife and Delgna's sons nsubj; here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raise | participle | the mounds and barrows not said here | honour of the deified heroes of this cycle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in honour=Destination | ||||
| 3 | deify | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | the mounds and barrows not said here | the expressive name of Beer | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 5 | honour | the deified heroes of this cycle | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | name | Beer | nom name «communication 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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