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title: The barks of the Phoenicians in the Odyssey.]; there hounds like tha… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The barks of the Phoenicians in the Odyssey.]; there hounds like that one of Ioroway, and spears like fiery flying serpents. 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 every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 22

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The barks of the Phoenicians in the Odyssey.\]; there hounds like that one of Ioroway, and spears like fiery flying serpents.

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**What happens:** fly

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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: 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:pg8109:6:22
# text = The barks of the Phoenicians in the Odyssey.]; there hounds like that one of Ioroway, and spears like fiery flying serpents.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barks	bark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Phoenicians	Phoenician	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ioroway	Ioroway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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