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title: "THE FLEET OF THE SONS OF MILITH CAME TO IRELAND TO TAKE IT FROM THE… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: "THE FLEET OF THE SONS OF MILITH CAME TO IRELAND TO TAKE IT FROM THE TUATHA DE DANAN," i.e., the gods of the ethnic Irish. Who acts: FLEET. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 11

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"THE FLEET OF THE SONS OF MILITH CAME TO IRELAND TO TAKE IT FROM THE TUATHA DE DANAN," i.e., the gods of the ethnic Irish.

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**Who acts:** FLEET · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** CAME, TUATHA DANAN

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FLEET), 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:pg8109:6:11
# text = "THE FLEET OF THE SONS OF MILITH CAME TO IRELAND TO TAKE IT FROM THE TUATHA DE DANAN," i.e., the gods of the ethnic Irish.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	FLEET	FLEET	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	SONS	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	MILITH	MILITH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	CAME	came	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	IRELAND	IRELAND	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	TO	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	TAKE	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	IT	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	FROM	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	TUATHA	TUATHA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	DANAN	DANAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the FLEET of the SONS of MILITH CAME to IRELAND | CAME |  | the TUATHA DANAN |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme i.e.=Destination |

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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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