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title: So much may indeed be said for the more ancient tales, but the Ulton… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: So much may indeed be said for the more ancient tales, but the Ultonian cycle deals with events well within the historic period. Who acts: Ultonian cycle. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 42

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So much may indeed be said for the more ancient tales, but the Ultonian cycle deals with events well within the historic period.

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**Who acts:** Ultonian cycle · **What happens:** say, deal · **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 (Ultonian cycle), 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:pg8109:3:42
# text = So much may indeed be said for the more ancient tales, but the Ultonian cycle deals with events well within the historic period.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Ultonian	Ultonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	deals	deal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
21	within	within	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for the ancient tales; indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 2 | **deal** | present | the Ultonian cycle |  |  |  |  | with events; within the historic period; well *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with event=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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