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title: The Irish heroic tales have their source in, and draw their interest… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Irish heroic tales have their source in, and draw their interest from, the mounds and those laid in them. Who acts: Irish heroic tales, tales. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 11

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The Irish heroic tales have their source in, and draw their interest from, the mounds and those laid in them.

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**Who acts:** Irish heroic tales, tales · **What happens:** have, draw, lay, interest · **To what, where:** source, interest, mounds

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irish heroic tales, tales), 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:pg8109:3:11
# text = The Irish heroic tales have their source in, and draw their interest from, the mounds and those laid in them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	conj	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Irish heroic tales | tales's source |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | infinitive |  | tales's interest |  | the mounds  those |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent interest=Theme from mound=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in tales *= tale* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in they=Destination |
| 4 | **interest** |  | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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