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title: As history, the pre-Milesian record contains but a limited supply of… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: As history, the pre-Milesian record contains but a limited supply of objective truths; but as theogony, and the history of the Irish gods, these much abused chronicles are as true as the roll of the kings of England. Who acts: pre-Milesian record, abused chronicles. A sentence of «Early Bardic Liter
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 15

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As history, the pre-Milesian record contains but a limited supply of objective truths; but as theogony, and the history of the Irish gods, these much abused chronicles are as true as the roll of the kings of England.

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**Who acts:** pre-Milesian record, abused chronicles · **What happens:** contain, abuse, be, roll · **To what, where:** kings

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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 (pre-Milesian record, abused chronicles), 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:pg8109:10:15
# text = As history, the pre-Milesian record contains but a limited supply of objective truths; but as theogony, and the history of the Irish gods, these much abused chronicles are as true as the roll of the kings of England.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pre-Milesian	pre-milesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	objective	objective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	truths	truth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	theogony	theogony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	abused	abuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | the pre-Milesian record |  |  |  |  | as history; a limited supply of objective truths *conj* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **abuse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | this abused chronicles |  |  |  |  | as theogony; as the roll of the kings of England; true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roll** |  |  | the kings of England |  |  |  |  | nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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