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title: The tribal bards, wandering or attending the great fairs and assembl… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The tribal bards, wandering or attending the great fairs and assemblies, would disperse among strangers and neighbours a knowledge of his renown. Who acts: tribal bards. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependen
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 131

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The tribal bards, wandering or attending the great fairs and assemblies, would disperse among strangers and neighbours a knowledge of his renown.

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**Who acts:** tribal bards · **What happens:** wonder, attend, disperse · **To what, where:** great fairs, knowledge

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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 (tribal bards), 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:pg8109:10:131
# text = The tribal bards, wandering or attending the great fairs and assemblies, would disperse among strangers and neighbours a knowledge of his renown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fairs	fair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	assemblies	assembly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	disperse	disperse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the tribal bards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **attend** | gerund | the tribal bards *not said here* | the great fairs and assemblies |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fair=Goal |
| 3 | **disperse** | would | the tribal bards | a knowledge of reverence's renown |  |  |  | among strangers and neighbours | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |

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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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