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title: Foreigners are surprised to find the Irish claim for their own count… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Foreigners are surprised to find the Irish claim for their own country an antiquity and a history prior to that of the neighbouring countries. Who acts: Foreigners. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, with its dependency t
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 47

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Foreigners are surprised to find the Irish claim for their own country an antiquity and a history prior to that of the neighbouring countries.

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**Who acts:** Foreigners · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** Irish claim

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foreigners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8109:1:47
# text = Foreigners are surprised to find the Irish claim for their own country an antiquity and a history prior to that of the neighbouring countries.
1	Foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Foreigners |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Foreigners *not said here* | the Irish claim and a history |  |  |  | for Foreigners's own country and a antiquity; prior that of the neighbouring countries | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent claim=Theme for country=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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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