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title: The marvellous is supplied with greater abundance in the account of… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The marvellous is supplied with greater abundance in the account of the battle of Clontarf, and the wars of the O'Briens with the Normans, than in the tale in which is described the foundation of Emain Macha by Kimbay. Who acts: Kimbay, O'Briens. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 19

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The marvellous is supplied with greater abundance in the account of the battle of Clontarf, and the wars of the O'Briens with the Normans, than in the tale in which is described the foundation of Emain Macha by Kimbay.

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**Who acts:** Kimbay, O'Briens · **What happens:** supply, describe, account, battle, war · **To what, where:** marvellous, foundation, tale, battle, Clontarf

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kimbay, O'Briens), 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:pg8109:2:19
# text = The marvellous is supplied with greater abundance in the account of the battle of Clontarf, and the wars of the O'Briens with the Normans, than in the tale in which is described the foundation of Emain Macha by Kimbay.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	marvellous	marvellous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Clontarf	Clontarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	O'Briens	O'brien	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Normans	Norman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Emain	Emain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	Macha	Macha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Kimbay	Kimbay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | present · passive |  | the marvellous |  |  |  | with greater abundance in the account of the battle of Clontarf; the wars of the O'Briens with the Normans *conj*; the tale *parataxis* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with abundance=Theme |
| 2 | **describe** | present · passive | Kimbay | the foundation of Emain |  | the tale |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the battle of Clontarf |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **battle** |  |  | Clontarf |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **war** |  | the O'Briens |  |  |  |  | with the Normans | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent with=obl |

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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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