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title: The Tuatha De Danan maybe counted literally by the hundred, each wit… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tuatha De Danan maybe counted literally by the hundred, each with a distinct history, and all descended from Alldaei. Who acts: Tuatha Danan. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 76

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The Tuatha De Danan maybe counted literally by the hundred, each with a distinct history, and all descended from Alldaei.

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**Who acts:** Tuatha Danan · **What happens:** count, descend · **To what, where:** all, Alldaei

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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 (Tuatha Danan), 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:pg8109:10:76
# text = The Tuatha De Danan maybe counted literally by the hundred, each with a distinct history, and all descended from Alldaei.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Danan	Danan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	appos	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Alldaei	Alldaei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | the Tuatha Danan |  |  |  |  | by the hundred; literally, maybe *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **descend** | participle · passive |  | all |  | Alldaei |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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