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title: Turn we now from the sole boast of Germany to one out of a hundred i… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn we now from the sole boast of Germany to one out of a hundred in the Irish bardic literature. Who acts: you, Germany. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 25

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Turn we now from the sole boast of Germany to one out of a hundred in the Irish bardic literature.

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**Who acts:** you, Germany · **What happens:** turn, boast · **To what, where:** we, one, sole boast

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Germany), 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:pg8109:4:25
# text = Turn we now from the sole boast of Germany to one out of a hundred in the Irish bardic literature.
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | we | one out a hundred in the Irish bardic literature | the sole boast of Germany | now |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme from boast=Source to one=Trajectory |
| 2 | **boast** |  | Germany |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «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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