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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 36

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Of the many poetical and rhetorical titles lavished upon this country, none is truer than that which calls her the Isle of Song.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** lavish, be, call · **To what, where:** Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (none), 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:pg8109:1:36
# text = Of the many poetical and rhetorical titles lavished upon this country, none is truer than that which calls her the Isle of Song.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	poetical	poetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rhetorical	rhetorical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
8	lavished	lavish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	truer	true	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lavish** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the many poetical titles; upon this country | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | none |  |  |  |  | than that; true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | present |  |  | Ireland |  |  | which *nsubj*; the Isle of Song *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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