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title: The succession of the kings and of the great princely families was o… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The succession of the kings and of the great princely families was one of these. Who acts: succession. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 54

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The succession of the kings and of the great princely families was one of these.

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**Who acts:** succession · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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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 (succession), 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:pg8109:5:54
# text = The succession of the kings and of the great princely families was one of these.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the succession of the kings and the great princely families | one |  |  |  | of these | 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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