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title: But they have not started into existence suddenly, like the gods of… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: But they have not started into existence suddenly, like the gods of Rome, nor is their genealogy confined to a single generation like those of Greece. Who acts: dells. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, with its dependenc
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 28

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But they have not started into existence suddenly, like the gods of Rome, nor is their genealogy confined to a single generation like those of Greece.

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**Who acts:** dells · **What happens:** not start, be, confine · **To what, where:** existence, genealogy, single generation

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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 (dells), 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:pg8109:6:28
# text = But they have not started into existence suddenly, like the gods of Rome, nor is their genealogy confined to a single generation like those of Greece.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	genealogy	genealogy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **start** | present · perfect | dells *= dell* |  |  | existence |  | like the gods of Rome; suddenly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | dells's genealogy |  |  |  | dells *= dell* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **confine** | participle |  | dells's genealogy *not said here* |  |  | to a single generation like those of Greece |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to generation=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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