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title: To these I have at times appended the dates, as given in the chronic… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: To these I have at times appended the dates, as given in the chronicles, to show how the early historians rationalised the pre-historic record. Who acts: I, early historians. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dep
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 53

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To these I have at times appended the dates, as given in the chronicles, to show how the early historians rationalised the pre-historic record.

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**Who acts:** I, early historians · **What happens:** have, append, give, show, rationalis · **To what, where:** dates, chronicles, pre-historic record

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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 (I, early historians), 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:pg8109:10:53
# text = To these I have at times appended the dates, as given in the chronicles, to show how the early historians rationalised the pre-historic record.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	appended	append	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rationalised	rationalis	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	pre-historic	pre-historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  | to these | tree rules |
| 2 | **append** | past | I *not said here* | the dates |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  |  |  | the chronicles |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rationalis** | past | the early historians | the pre-historic record |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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