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title: Here by the lake he worked, surrounded by rainbows and showers of fi… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Here by the lake he worked, surrounded by rainbows and showers of fiery dew. Who acts: I.. 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 70

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Here by the lake he worked, surrounded by rainbows and showers of fiery dew.

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**Who acts:** I. · **What happens:** work, surround · **To what, where:** lake

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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.), 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:pg8109:10:70
# text = Here by the lake he worked, surrounded by rainbows and showers of fiery dew.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rainbows	rainbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | I. | the lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent lake=Material |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | rainbows and showers of fiery dew *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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