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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 46

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It is evident that these cannot be classed with stories that float vaguely in an ideal world, which may happen in one place as well as another, and in which the names might be disarrayed without changing the character and consistency of the tale, and its relations, in time or otherwise, with other tales.

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**Who acts:** life, stories, ideal world · **What happens:** be, not class, float, happen, disarray, change · **To what, where:** these, ideal world, names, character

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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 (life, stories, ideal world), 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:pg8109:1:46
# text = It is evident that these cannot be classed with stories that float vaguely in an ideal world, which may happen in one place as well as another, and in which the names might be disarrayed without changing the character and consistency of the tale, and its relations, in time or otherwise, with other tales.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	classed	class	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	vaguely	vaguely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ideal	ideal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	disarrayed	disarray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
39	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	consistency	consistency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
55	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | life |  |  |  |  | life's relations and time and other tales *parataxis*; evident *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **class** | can · passive |  | these |  |  |  | with stories | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **float** | present | stories |  |  | a ideal world |  | in one place; vaguely *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in world=Source in place=Trajectory |
| 4 | **happen** | may | a ideal world |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **disarray** | might · passive |  | the names |  |  |  | which *obl* | tree rules |
| 6 | **change** | gerund |  | the character and consistency of the tale |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=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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