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title: Though their worship was extended over Ireland, which is shown by th… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods., sentence 2

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Though their worship was extended over Ireland, which is shown by the many different places connected with their history, yet the hill of Tallaght, ten miles from Dublin, was where they were chiefly adored.

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**Who acts:** many different places, father · **What happens:** extend, show, connect, be, worship · **To what, where:** worship, Ireland, many different places, hill

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many different places, father), 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:pg8109:8:2
# text = Though their worship was extended over Ireland, which is shown by the many different places connected with their history, yet the hill of Tallaght, ten miles from Dublin, was where they were chiefly adored.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tallaght	Tallaght	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	adored	adore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | past · passive |  | father's worship |  | Ireland |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present · passive | the many different places |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **connect** | participle |  | the many different places *not said here* |  |  |  | with father's history | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with history=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past · passive |  | the hill of Tallaght and ten miles from Dublin |  |  |  | adore, chiefly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **worship** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom worship «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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