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title: A youth came once to the Fianna Eireen encamped at Locha Lein [Note:… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: A youth came once to the Fianna Eireen encamped at Locha Lein [Note: The Lakes of Killarney.], leading a hound dazzling white, like snow. Who acts: youth, Fianna Eireen, hound. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 10

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A youth came once to the Fianna Eireen encamped at Locha Lein \[Note: The Lakes of Killarney.\], leading a hound dazzling white, like snow.

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**Who acts:** youth, Fianna Eireen, hound · **What happens:** come, encamp, lead, dazzle · **To what, where:** Locha, hound, white

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Fianna Eireen, hound), 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:pg8109:5:10
# text = A youth came once to the Fianna Eireen encamped at Locha Lein [Note: The Lakes of Killarney.], leading a hound dazzling white, like snow.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Eireen	Eireen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	encamped	encamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Locha	Locha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Lein	Lein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lakes	Lake	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Killarney	Killarney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a youth |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **encamp** | past | the Fianna Eireen |  |  | Locha |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | the Fianna Eireen *not said here* | a hound |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Theme |
| 4 | **dazzle** | gerund | a hound *not said here* | white |  |  |  | like snow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus white=Experiencer |

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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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