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title: It was his goldsmith Len, who gave its ancient name to the Lakes of… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: It was his goldsmith Len, who gave its ancient name to the Lakes of Killarney, Locha Lein. Who acts: latter, goldsmith. 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 69

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It was his goldsmith Len, who gave its ancient name to the Lakes of Killarney, Locha Lein.

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**Who acts:** latter, goldsmith · **What happens:** be, give, name · **To what, where:** goldsmith, ancient name, Lakes

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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 (latter, goldsmith), 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:pg8109:10:69
# text = It was his goldsmith Len, who gave its ancient name to the Lakes of Killarney, Locha Lein.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Len	Len	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Lakes	Lake	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Killarney	Killarney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Locha	Locha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	Lein	Lein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | latter | I.'s goldsmith |  |  |  | I. *nmod:poss*; Len *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | I.'s goldsmith | latter's ancient name | the Lakes of Killarney and Locha |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to lake=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  | latter |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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