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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 29

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Behind them extends a long line of ancestors, and a history reaching into the remotest depths of the past.

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**Who acts:** dells, history · **What happens:** extend, reach · **To what, where:** long line, remotest depths

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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, history), 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:pg8109:6:29
# text = Behind them extends a long line of ancestors, and a history reaching into the remotest depths of the past.
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	extends	extend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	remotest	remote	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | present | dells *= dell* | a long line of ancestors |  |  |  | a history *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | a history *not said here* |  |  | the remotest depths of the past |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into depth=Path |

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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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