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title: The bee-hive houses of the monks, the early churches, and the round… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The bee-hive houses of the monks, the early churches, and the round towers are a development of that architecture which constructed the central chambers of the raths. Who acts: round towers, hive houses. 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 173

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The bee-hive houses of the monks, the early churches, and the round towers are a development of that architecture which constructed the central chambers of the raths.

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**Who acts:** round towers, hive houses · **What happens:** be, construct · **To what, where:** development, central chambers

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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 (round towers, hive houses), 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:pg8109:10:173
# text = The bee-hive houses of the monks, the early churches, and the round towers are a development of that architecture which constructed the central chambers of the raths.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	constructed	construct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	raths	rath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the round towers | a development |  |  |  | of that architecture | tree rules |
| 2 | **construct** | past | the hive houses of the monks and the early churches | the central chambers of the raths |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Result |

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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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