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title: We see the stone cist with its great smooth flags, the rocky cairn,… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: We see the stone cist with its great smooth flags, the rocky cairn, and huge barrow and massive walled cathair, but the interest which they invariably excite is only aroused to subside again unsatisfied. Who acts: We, cist. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 15

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We see the stone cist with its great smooth flags, the rocky cairn, and huge barrow and massive walled cathair, but the interest which they invariably excite is only aroused to subside again unsatisfied.

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**Who acts:** We, cist · **What happens:** see, wall, excite, arouse, subside · **To what, where:** stone cist, interest

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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, cist), 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:pg8109:1:15
# text = We see the stone cist with its great smooth flags, the rocky cairn, and huge barrow and massive walled cathair, but the interest which they invariably excite is only aroused to subside again unsatisfied.
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	5	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cist	cist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	barrow	barrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	cathair	cathair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	excite	excite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	subside	subside	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	unsatisfied	unsatisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 stone cist and the rocky cairn |  |  |  | with religion's great smooth flags; huge barrow and massive walled cathair *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cist=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **excite** | present | cist | the interest |  |  |  | invariably *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer |
| 4 | **arouse** | present · passive |  | the interest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **subside** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again | unsatisfied *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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