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title: From Alldaei the pedigree runs back thus:-- — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: From Alldaei the pedigree runs back thus:-- Who acts: pedigree. 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 77

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From Alldaei the pedigree runs back thus:--

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**Who acts:** pedigree · **What happens:** run back · **To what, where:** 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 (pedigree), 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:pg8109:10:77
# text = From Alldaei the pedigree runs back thus:--
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Alldaei	Alldaei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pedigree	pedigree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run back** | present | the pedigree |  |  | Alldaei |  | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from alldaei=Trajectory |

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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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