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title: To what remote unimagined distances of time those earlier cycles ext… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: To what remote unimagined distances of time those earlier cycles extend has been shown by an examination of the tombs of the lower Moy Tura. Who acts: remote, earlier cycles, examination. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.,
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 47

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To what remote unimagined distances of time those earlier cycles extend has been shown by an examination of the tombs of the lower Moy Tura.

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**Who acts:** remote, earlier cycles, examination · **What happens:** unimagin, extend, show, examine · **To what, where:** distances, tombs

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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 (remote, earlier cycles, examination), 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:pg8109:10:47
# text = To what remote unimagined distances of time those earlier cycles extend has been shown by an examination of the tombs of the lower Moy Tura.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
3	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	unimagined	unimagin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	cycles	cycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	extend	extend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	Moy	Moy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Tura	Tura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unimagin** | past | remote | distances of time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **extend** | present | that earlier cycles |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | present · perfect · passive | a examination of the tombs of the Moy Tura |  |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to what=Recipient |
| 4 | **examine** |  |  | the tombs of the Moy Tura |  |  |  |  | nom examination «act 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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