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title: Immense pebbles, drawn from the County of Antrim, stand around it, e… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Immense pebbles, drawn from the County of Antrim, stand around it, each of which, even to move at all, would require the labour of many men, assisted with mechanical appliances. Who acts: Immense pebbles. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 118

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Immense pebbles, drawn from the County of Antrim, stand around it, each of which, even to move at all, would require the labour of many men, assisted with mechanical appliances.

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**Who acts:** Immense pebbles · **What happens:** draw, stand, move, require, assist · **To what, where:** each, County, all, labour, many men

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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 (Immense pebbles), 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:pg8109:10:118
# text = Immense pebbles, drawn from the County of Antrim, stand around it, each of which, even to move at all, would require the labour of many men, assisted with mechanical appliances.
1	Immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Antrim	Antrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	require	require	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	appliances	appliance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle | Immense pebbles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the County of Antrim | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from county=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | Immense pebbles | each |  | County |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
| 4 | **require** | would |  | the labour of many men |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme labour=Precondition |
| 5 | **assist** | participle |  | many men *not said here* |  |  |  | with mechanical appliances | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with appliance=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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