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title: Like Pallas, they all but start into existence suddenly full-grown. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Like Pallas, they all but start into existence suddenly full-grown. Who acts: gods. 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 39

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Like Pallas, they all but start into existence suddenly full-grown.

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** start, grow · **To what, where:** existence

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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 (gods), 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:pg8109:6:39
# text = Like Pallas, they all but start into existence suddenly full-grown.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Pallas	Pallas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | infinitive | gods *= god* |  |  | existence |  | like Pallas; suddenly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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