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title: The Tan-bo-Cooalney was therefore _transcribed_ by an ancient penman… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tan-bo-Cooalney was therefore _transcribed_ by an ancient penman to the parchment of a still existing manuscript, in the century before that in which the German epic is presumed, from style only, and in the opinion of Germans, to have been _composed_. Who acts: Tan. A sentence of «Early Bardic L
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 30

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The Tan-bo-Cooalney was therefore \_transcribed\_ by an ancient penman to the parchment of a still existing manuscript, in the century before that in which the German epic is presumed, from style only, and in the opinion of Germans, to have been \_composed\_.

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**Who acts:** Tan · **What happens:** transcribe, exist, presume, be, compose, opine · **To what, where:** opinion, that, style, \_, Germans

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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 (Tan), 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:pg8109:4:30
# text = The Tan-bo-Cooalney was therefore _transcribed_ by an ancient penman to the parchment of a still existing manuscript, in the century before that in which the German epic is presumed, from style only, and in the opinion of Germans, to have been _composed_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tan	Tan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bo	bo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Cooalney	Cooalney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	transcribed	transcribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	penman	penman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	parchment	parchment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
23	manuscript	manuscript	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
28	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	epic	epic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	presumed	presume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Germans	german	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
50	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux	_	_
51	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	52	cop	_	_
52	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transcribe** | past · passive | the Tan and Cooalney |  |  | the opinion of Germans and \_ |  | by a ancient penman to the parchment of a manuscript century; therefore *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by penman=Destination |
| 2 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **presume** | present · passive |  | that |  | style |  | which *obl*; the German epic *nsubj:pass* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect | the Tan and Cooalney *not said here* | \_ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **compose** | participle |  | \_ *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **opine** |  |  | Germans |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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