Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods., sentence 6

These battles are a parable--objective representations of a fact in the mental history of the ancient Irish--typifying the invisible war waged between Partholanian and Fomorian deities for the spiritual sovereignty of the Gael.

Who acts: battles, parable, invisible war · What happens: be, typify, wage, represent · To what, where: parable, fact

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 (battles, parable, invisible war), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 battles	det
2	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 parable	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 parable	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parable	det
5	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 representations	punct
7	objective	objective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 representations	amod
8	representations	representation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 parable	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 fact	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fact	det
11	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 representations	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 history	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 history	det
14	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 history	amod
15	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fact	nmod
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 Irish	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Irish	det
18	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Irish	amod
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 history	acl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 typifying	punct
21	typifying	typify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 parable	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 war	det
23	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 war	amod
24	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waged	nsubj
25	waged	wage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 typifying	ccomp
26	between	between	ADP	_	27 Partholanian	case
27	Partholanian	Partholanian	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 waged	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 deities	cc
29	Fomorian	fomorian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 deities	amod
30	deities	deity	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Partholanian	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 sovereignty	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sovereignty	det
33	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sovereignty	amod
34	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deities	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Gael	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Gael	det
37	Gael	Gael	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sovereignty	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 parable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this battles	a parable	objective representations of a fact in the mental history appos	tree rules
2	typify	gerund	a parable not said here			tree rules
3	wage	past	the invisible war		between Partholanian and Fomorian deities for the spiritual sovereignty of the Gael	tree rules
4	represent			a fact in the mental history		nom representation «cognition 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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods., sentence 6