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title: The central chamber, made of huge irregular pebbles, is about twenty… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The central chamber, made of huge irregular pebbles, is about twenty feet from ground to roof, communicating with the outer air by a flagged passage. Who acts: central chamber, twenty feet. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 117

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The central chamber, made of huge irregular pebbles, is about twenty feet from ground to roof, communicating with the outer air by a flagged passage.

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**Who acts:** central chamber, twenty feet · **What happens:** make, be, communicate, flag · **To what, where:** central chamber, twenty feet, ground

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (central chamber, twenty feet), 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:pg8109:10:117
# text = The central chamber, made of huge irregular pebbles, is about twenty feet from ground to roof, communicating with the outer air by a flagged passage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	communicating	communicate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	flagged	flag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | the central chamber *not said here* |  |  |  | of huge irregular pebbles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the central chamber | twenty feet |  | ground to roof |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **communicate** | gerund | twenty feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the outer air; by a flagged passage | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with air=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **flag** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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