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title: At the commencement should stand the passage from the Book of Invasi… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 26

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At the commencement should stand the passage from the Book of Invasions, describing the occupation of the isle by Queen Keasair and her companions, and along with it every discoverable tale or poem dealing with this event and those characters.

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**Who acts:** poem · **What happens:** stand, describe, deal, occupy · **To what, where:** passage, commencement, occupation, isle

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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 (poem), 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:pg8109:2:26
# text = At the commencement should stand the passage from the Book of Invasions, describing the occupation of the isle by Queen Keasair and her companions, and along with it every discoverable tale or poem dealing with this event and those characters.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	commencement	commencement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Invasions	invasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	Keasair	Keasair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	along	along	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
32	discoverable	discoverable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | should |  | the passage |  | the commencement |  | from the Book of Invasions; along isle | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent passage=Theme at commencement=Destination |
| 2 | **describe** | gerund |  | the occupation of the isle |  |  |  | by Queen and Ireland's companions | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent occupation=Theme |
| 3 | **deal** | gerund | poem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with this event and that characters | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with event=Theme |
| 4 | **occupy** |  |  | the isle |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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