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title: What swells out the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions i… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: What swells out the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions is the history of the gods and giants rationalised by mediaeval historians. Who acts: Irish chronicles. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, with its depend
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 44

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What swells out the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions is the history of the gods and giants rationalised by mediaeval historians.

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**Who acts:** Irish chronicles · **What happens:** swell out, be, rationalis · **To what, where:** history, gods

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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 chronicles), 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:pg8109:3:44
# text = What swells out the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions is the history of the gods and giants rationalised by mediaeval historians.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	portentous	portentous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	rationalised	rationalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	mediaeval	mediaeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell out** | present |  |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions | the history |  |  |  | of the gods and giants | tree rules |
| 3 | **rationalis** | participle |  | the gods and giants *not said here* |  |  |  | mediaeval historians *obl:agent* | tree rules |

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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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