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title: Thirdly, all that relates to Nemeth and his sons, their wars with cu… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thirdly, all that relates to Nemeth and his sons, their wars with curt Kical the bow-legged, and all that relates to the Fomoroh of the Nemedian epoch, then first moving dimly in the forefront of our history. Who acts: that, sons. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 28

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Thirdly, all that relates to Nemeth and his sons, their wars with curt Kical the bow-legged, and all that relates to the Fomoroh of the Nemedian epoch, then first moving dimly in the forefront of our history.

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**Who acts:** that, sons · **What happens:** relate, move, war · **To what, where:** Nemeth, forefront

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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 (that, sons), 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:pg8109:2:28
# text = Thirdly, all that relates to Nemeth and his sons, their wars with curt Kical the bow-legged, and all that relates to the Fomoroh of the Nemedian epoch, then first moving dimly in the forefront of our history.
1	Thirdly	thirdly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nemeth	Nemeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	curt	curt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Kical	Kical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	legged	legged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Fomoroh	Fomoroh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Nemedian	Nemedian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	epoch	epoch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	advmod	_	_
36	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
37	dimly	dimly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	forefront	forefront	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | that |  | Nemeth and Partholan's sons and sons's wars with curt Kical |  |  | thirdly *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to nemeth=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **relate** | present | that |  |  |  |  | to the Fomoroh of the Nemedian epoch | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to fomoroh=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  | the forefront of our history | then | dimly, first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in forefront=Trajectory |
| 4 | **war** |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | with curt Kical | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=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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