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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 9

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Still we continue to inquire, receiving from him no adequate response, Who were those ancient chieftains and warriors for whom an affectionate people raised those strange tombs?

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**Who acts:** we, adequate response, affectionate people · **What happens:** continue, inquire, receive, be, raise · **To what, where:** adequate response, ancient chieftains, strange tombs

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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 (we, adequate response, affectionate people), 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:pg8109:1:9
# text = Still we continue to inquire, receiving from him no adequate response, Who were those ancient chieftains and warriors for whom an affectionate people raised those strange tombs?
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chieftains	chieftain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present | we |  |  |  | still |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **receive** | gerund | we *not said here* | no adequate response |  |  |  | from tradition | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent response=Theme from he=Source |
| 4 | **is a** | past | no adequate response | that ancient chieftains and warriors |  |  |  | for no adequate response; warriors *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **raise** | past | a affectionate people | that strange tombs |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme |

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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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