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title: For all that the early Roman literature tells us of their origin, th… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: For all that the early Roman literature tells us of their origin, they may have been either self-created or eternal. 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 32

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For all that the early Roman literature tells us of their origin, they may have been either self-created or eternal.

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**What happens:** tell, create · **To what, where:** us, gods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg8109:6:32
# text = For all that the early Roman literature tells us of their origin, they may have been either self-created or eternal.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
18	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	eternal	eternal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  |  | us |  |  | for the early Roman literature  that; of gods's origin | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 2 | **create** | may · perfect · passive |  | gods *= god* |  |  |  | self *compound*; eternal *conj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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