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description: For instance, in the "Great Breach of Murthemney," we find Laeg at one moment killed, and in the next riding black Shanglan off the field. Who acts: we, one moment. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, with its dependency t
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 30

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For instance, in the "Great Breach of Murthemney," we find Laeg at one moment killed, and in the next riding black Shanglan off the field.

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**Who acts:** we, one moment · **What happens:** find, kill · **To what, where:** Laeg, black Shanglan · **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 (we, one moment), 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:pg8109:3:30
# text = For instance, in the "Great Breach of Murthemney," we find Laeg at one moment killed, and in the next riding black Shanglan off the field.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Breach	Breach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Murthemney	Murthemney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Laeg	Laeg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Shanglan	Shanglan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | we | Laeg |  |  |  | for instance in the Great Breach of Murthemney | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent laeg=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | one moment | black Shanglan in the next riding off the field |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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