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title: The event of which this epic treats occurred at the time of the Inca… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The event of which this epic treats occurred at the time of the Incarnation, and its characters are the leading Irish kings and warriors of that date. Who acts: event, characters. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, with i
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 42

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The event of which this epic treats occurred at the time of the Incarnation, and its characters are the leading Irish kings and warriors of that date.

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**Who acts:** event, characters · **What happens:** occur, lead, be · **To what, where:** leading Irish kings

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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 (event, characters), 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:pg8109:4:42
# text = The event of which this epic treats occurred at the time of the Incarnation, and its characters are the leading Irish kings and warriors of that date.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Incarnation	Incarnation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
22	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | the event |  |  |  | time | which *obl*; this epic treats *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **is a** | present | event's characters | the leading Irish kings and warriors of that date |  |  |  | warriors of that date *conj* | 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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