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agus cér bith seort uisce broghach a bhí fágtha ag bean an ti i mbuicéad in íochtar an cisteanadh thíos, and whatever sort of dirty water that was left by the woman of the house in a bucket in the lower end of the kitchen below Relative Clauses Possession Prepositional Phrases Passive Voice
rug sé ar an mbuicéad uisce bhroghach sin he grabbed [lit: on] the bucket of dirty water there agus Physical Action Object Interaction Verb Past Tense Narrative
d’oscail sé an doras agus chaith sé amach ar an gcnoc é. he opened the door and he threw it out onto the hillside Action Sequence Physical Movement Compound Sentence Active Voice
Agus ar áit na bonn nuair a chaith sé amach an t-uisce ins an doras And the moment he threw the water out the door, Temporal Sequence Actions Past Tense Narrative
d’éirigh an tslua meáin pháistí up rose a host of ‘mid children’ (children between worlds) Fantasy Elements Complex Structures Noun Phrase Literary
agus thosaigh siad ag gártháil. and started shouting Verb Phrase Action Past Tense Aggressive
Chonaic sé ag imeacht iad mar a bheadh cnap míoltóga ón teach he saw them disappear, as would a swarm of midges, from the house Observation Simile Past Tense Narrative
agus níl ann go ndearna sé aníos é go dtí an leaba san áit a raibh a bhean ina codladh. Agus d’inis sé an scéal daoithe and he barely made it back down to the bed where his wife was sleeping. And he told her what happened [lit: the story] Narrative Past Actions Past Perfect Tense Reflective
‘Céard ‘tá ort?’ a dúirt sí. "What's wrong with you?" She said Interrogatives Health/Well-being Question Form Confrontational
"ceard 'tá ort?", a dúrt sí "what's wrong with you?" she said Interjection Indirect Speech Past Simple Neutral
Á bhail,” a dúirt sé, “tá rud cluinstes anocht agam nár mhoithigh mé ariamh "O well", he said, "I head something tonight that I never hear before". Informal Expression Reported Speech Past Tense Reflective
"Céard a mhoithigh tú?", a dúirt sí "What did you hear?, she said Interrogative Reported Speech Past Simple Curiosity
Chaith mé amach an t-uisce broghach a bhí fágtha thíos sa gcanna agat ó oíche,’ a dúirt sé ‘amach ar an gcnoc' I threw out the dirty water that you left in the can last night’ he said ‘out on the hill' Clauses Direct Speech Past Tense Reported Speech
"agus d'éirigh an slua meáin pháistí amach ón doras.” "and a crowd of halfling children rose up outside the door" Fantasy Creatures action/events Past Tense Neutral
"Ah muise", a dúirt sí, "Amadaín" "well indeed", she said, "you fool". Discourse Markers Insult Direct Speech Contemptuous Tone