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title: "'Our ancestors fell there By force of the treachery of the Fians; R… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Our ancestors fell there By force of the treachery of the Fians; Remember the hard tributes, Remember the extraordinary pride.'" Who acts: ancestors. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 62

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"'Our ancestors fell there By force of the treachery of the Fians; Remember the hard tributes, Remember the extraordinary pride.'"

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**Who acts:** ancestors · **What happens:** fall, remember · **To what, where:** hard tributes, extraordinary pride

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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 (ancestors), 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:pg8109:2:62
# text = "'Our ancestors fell there By force of the treachery of the Fians; Remember the hard tributes, Remember the extraordinary pride.'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	By	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Fians	Fian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tributes	tribute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | Our ancestors |  |  | there |  | by force of the treachery of the Fians | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by force=Location |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | Our ancestors *not said here* | the hard tributes |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | Our ancestors *not said here* | the extraordinary pride |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pride=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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