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title: These are the Tuatha De Danan [Note: A mystery still hangs over this… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: These are the Tuatha De Danan [Note: A mystery still hangs over this three-formed name. Who acts: These, mystery. 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 23

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These are the Tuatha De Danan \[Note: A mystery still hangs over this three-formed name.

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**Who acts:** These, mystery · **What happens:** be, hang, form · **To what, where:** Tuatha Note, formed name

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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 (These, mystery), 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:pg8109:6:23
# text = These are the Tuatha De Danan [Note: A mystery still hangs over this three-formed name.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Danan	Danan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | These | the Tuatha Note |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | present | a mystery |  |  | this formed name | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over name=Location |
| 3 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | three *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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