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title: There is not through the length and breadth of the country a conspic… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: There is not through the length and breadth of the country a conspicuous rath or barrow of which we cannot find the traditional history preserved in this ancient literature. Who acts: conspicuous rath, we. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 56

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There is not through the length and breadth of the country a conspicuous rath or barrow of which we cannot find the traditional history preserved in this ancient literature.

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**Who acts:** conspicuous rath, we · **What happens:** not be, not find, preserve · **To what, where:** length, traditional history, ancient literature

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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 (conspicuous rath, we), 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:pg8109:1:56
# text = There is not through the length and breadth of the country a conspicuous rath or barrow of which we cannot find the traditional history preserved in this ancient literature.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rath	rath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	barrow	barrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **does** | present | a conspicuous rath or barrow |  |  | the length of the country and breadth; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through length=Location |
| 2 | **not** **find** | can | we | the traditional history |  |  |  | of barrow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic |
| 3 | **preserve** | participle |  | the traditional history *not said here* |  | this ancient literature |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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