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title: I at one time suspected that the long pedigrees running between thos… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: I at one time suspected that the long pedigrees running between those several divisions of the mythological period were the invention of mediaeval historians, anxious to spin out the national record, that it might reach to Shinar and the dispersion. Who acts: long pedigrees, record. A sentence of «E
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 39

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I at one time suspected that the long pedigrees running between those several divisions of the mythological period were the invention of mediaeval historians, anxious to spin out the national record, that it might reach to Shinar and the dispersion.

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**Who acts:** long pedigrees, record · **What happens:** suspect, run, be, spin out, reach · **To what, where:** one time, several divisions, invention, national record, Shinar

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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 (long pedigrees, record), 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:pg8109:10:39
# text = I at one time suspected that the long pedigrees running between those several divisions of the mythological period were the invention of mediaeval historians, anxious to spin out the national record, that it might reach to Shinar and the dispersion.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pedigrees	pedigree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	divisions	division	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	mediaeval	mediaeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Shinar	Shinar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	dispersion	dispersion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspect** | participle |  | one time  I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the long pedigrees *not said here* |  |  | that several divisions of the mythological period |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between division=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the long pedigrees | the invention |  |  |  | of mediaeval historians | tree rules |
| 4 | **spin out** | to-infinitive | the long pedigrees *not said here* | the national record |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 5 | **reach** | might | record |  | Shinar and the dispersion |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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