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title: Pre-historic narrative is of two kinds--in one the imagination is at… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Pre-historic narrative is of two kinds--in one the imagination is at work consciously, in the other unconsciously. Who acts: Pre-historic narrative, one. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 40

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Pre-historic narrative is of two kinds--in one the imagination is at work consciously, in the other unconsciously.

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**Who acts:** Pre-historic narrative, one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** work

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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 (Pre-historic narrative, one), 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:pg8109:1:40
# text = Pre-historic narrative is of two kinds--in one the imagination is at work consciously, in the other unconsciously.
1	Pre-historic	pre-historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
15	consciously	consciously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
20	unconsciously	unconsciously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pre-historic narrative |  |  |  |  | of two kinds | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | one |  |  | work |  | the imagination *nsubj*; consciously *property* | tree rules |

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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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