Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Age of the Nemedian Gods and Second Cycle of the Fomorians., sentence 6
The sites of all these mythological battles, where they are not placed in the haunted mountains, will be found to be a place of raths and cromlechs.] and Murbolg, in Dalaradia (Murbolg, i.e., the stronghold of the giants,) also at Tor Coning, now Tory Island.
Who acts: sites · What happens: not place, haunt, find, be · To what, where: sites, haunted mountains, place
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Age of the Nemedian Gods and Second Cycle of the Fomorians.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sites), 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 | 2 sites | det |
| 2 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 battles | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 battles | det:predet |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 battles | det |
| 6 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 battles | amod |
| 7 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sites | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 placed | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 placed | advmod |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 battles | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountains | det |
| 16 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 mountains | amod |
| 17 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 placed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sites | punct |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 place | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 place | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 raths | case |
| 27 | raths | rath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 place | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cromlechs | cc |
| 29 | cromlechs | cromlech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 raths | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 56 Island | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 Island | cc |
| 33 | Murbolg | Murbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Island | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Dalaradia | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Dalaradia | case |
| 36 | Dalaradia | Dalaradia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Murbolg | conj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 Murbolg | punct |
| 38 | Murbolg | Murbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Dalaradia | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 i.e. | punct |
| 40 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 38 Murbolg | dep |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 stronghold | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stronghold | det |
| 43 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Murbolg | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 giants | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 giants | det |
| 46 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 stronghold | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Murbolg | punct |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 Murbolg | punct |
| 49 | also | also | ADV | _ | 51 Tor | advmod |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 Tor | case |
| 51 | Tor | Tor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Murbolg | nmod |
| 52 | Coning | Coning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Tor | flat |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Island | punct |
| 54 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 56 Island | advmod |
| 55 | Tory | Tory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Island | compound |
| 56 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not place | present · passive | sites = site | the haunted mountains | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mountain=Destination | ||||
| 2 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | find | future · passive | the sites of all mythological battles | Tory Island Murbolg at Tor and Dalaradia obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the sites of all mythological battles not said here | a place | of raths and cromlechs | 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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