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description: They still remain demanding adequate treatment, when we arrive at the age of Conn [Note: See page 20.], Art, and Cormac, kings of Tara in the second and third centuries of the Christian era. Who acts: wars, we. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Liter
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 30

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They still remain demanding adequate treatment, when we arrive at the age of Conn \[Note: See page 20.\], Art, and Cormac, kings of Tara in the second and third centuries of the Christian era.

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**Who acts:** wars, we · **What happens:** remain, demand, arrive, see · **To what, where:** adequate treatment, age, page

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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 (wars, we), 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:pg8109:5:30
# text = They still remain demanding adequate treatment, when we arrive at the age of Conn [Note: See page 20.], Art, and Cormac, kings of Tara in the second and third centuries of the Christian era.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	demanding	demand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	appos	_	_
20	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Cormac	Cormac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	conj	_	_
38	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | wars *= war* |  |  |  | still | Cormac kings of Tara in the second centuries of the Christian era *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | wars *= war* *not said here* | adequate treatment |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Precondition |
| 3 | **arrive** | present | we |  |  |  | at the age of Conn and Art |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  | page |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer page=Stimulus |

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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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