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title: Cuculain having slain the sons of Neara, "thought it unworthy of him… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuculain having slain the sons of Neara, "thought it unworthy of him to take possession of their chariot and horses." Who acts: Cuculain. 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 e
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 6

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Cuculain having slain the sons of Neara, "thought it unworthy of him to take possession of their chariot and horses."

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**Who acts:** Cuculain · **What happens:** have, think, take, possess · **To what, where:** slain, possession, chariot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cuculain), 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:pg8109:5:6
# text = Cuculain having slain the sons of Neara, "thought it unworthy of him to take possession of their chariot and horses."
1	Cuculain	Cuculain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Neara	Neara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
17	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Cuculain | slain |  |  |  | the sons of Neara *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Cuculain *not said here* | slain |  |  |  | unworthy *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | possession of sons's chariot and horses |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 4 | **possess** *in a quote* |  |  | sons's chariot and horses |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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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