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title: The transformed children alluded to in Vol. I. were his grand-childr… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The transformed children alluded to in Vol. I. were his grand-children. Who acts: transformed children. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 68

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The transformed children alluded to in Vol. I. were his grand-children.

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**Who acts:** transformed children · **What happens:** transform, allude, be · **To what, where:** transformed children, Vol. I., grand children

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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 (transformed children), 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:pg8109:10:68
# text = The transformed children alluded to in Vol. I. were his grand-children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	alluded	allude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Vol.	Vol.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **allude** | participle |  | the transformed children *not said here* |  | Vol. I. |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the transformed children | I.'s grand children |  |  |  | I. *nmod:poss* | 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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