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title: The tales of the Leabhar na Huidhre are in prose, but prose whose so… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The tales of the Leabhar na Huidhre are in prose, but prose whose source and original is poetry. Who acts: tales, source, Leabhar Huidhre. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 18

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The tales of the Leabhar na Huidhre are in prose, but prose whose source and original is poetry.

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**Who acts:** tales, source, Leabhar Huidhre · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** prose, poetry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tales, source, Leabhar Huidhre), 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:pg8109:3:18
# text = The tales of the Leabhar na Huidhre are in prose, but prose whose source and original is poetry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Leabhar	Leabhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	na	na	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	Huidhre	Huidhre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tales of the Leabhar Huidhre |  |  | prose |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | poetry's source and original | poetry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** |  | the Leabhar Huidhre |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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