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title: We see the cromlech with its massive slab and immense supporting pil… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 14

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We see the cromlech with its massive slab and immense supporting pillars, but we vainly endeavour to imagine for whom it was first erected, and how that greater than cyclopean house affected the minds of those who made it, or those who were reared in its neighbourhood or within reach of its influence.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** see, endeavour, imagine, erect, affect, make · **To what, where:** cromlech, religion, minds, those, neighbourhood

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg8109:1:14
# text = We see the cromlech with its massive slab and immense supporting pillars, but we vainly endeavour to imagine for whom it was first erected, and how that greater than cyclopean house affected the minds of those who made it, or those who were reared in its neighbourhood or within reach of its influence.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cromlech	cromlech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	slab	slab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	supporting	supporting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	vainly	vainly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	endeavour	endeavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
25	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	cyclopean	cyclopean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
34	affected	affect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	nmod	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	within	within	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | We | the cromlech |  |  |  | with religion's massive slab and immense supporting pillars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cromlech=Stimulus |
| 2 | **endeavour** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **imagine** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for vainly endeavour | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **erect** | past · passive |  | religion |  |  |  | first *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **affect** | past | We *not said here* | the minds of those |  |  |  | than cyclopean house | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer |
| 6 | **make** | past |  | religion |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 7 | **rear** | past · passive |  | those |  | religion's neighbourhood or reach of religion's influence |  | who *nsubj* | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **mind** |  |  | those |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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