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description: When the Irish bards began to elaborate a general history of their country, they naturally commenced with the enumeration of the elder gods. Who acts: Irish bards, bards. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its depende
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 38

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When the Irish bards began to elaborate a general history of their country, they naturally commenced with the enumeration of the elder gods.

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**Who acts:** Irish bards, bards · **What happens:** begin, elaborate, commence, enumerate · **To what, where:** general history, elder gods

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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 (Irish bards, 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:pg8109:10:38
# text = When the Irish bards began to elaborate a general history of their country, they naturally commenced with the enumeration of the elder gods.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	elaborate	elaborate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	enumeration	enumeration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Irish bards |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **elaborate** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Irish bards *not said here* | a general history of bards's country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **commence** | past | bards *= bard* |  |  |  |  | with the enumeration of the elder gods; naturally *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with enumeration=Subeventuality |
| 4 | **enumerate** |  |  | the elder gods |  |  |  |  | nom enumeration «communication 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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