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title: The Irish country gentleman prides himself on his love of trees, and… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Irish country gentleman prides himself on his love of trees, and entertains a very wholesome contempt for the mercantile boor who, on purchasing an old place, chops down the best timber for the market. Who acts: Irish country gentleman, mercantile boor, landlord. A sentence of «Early Bardic Lite
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 64

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The Irish country gentleman prides himself on his love of trees, and entertains a very wholesome contempt for the mercantile boor who, on purchasing an old place, chops down the best timber for the market.

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**Who acts:** Irish country gentleman, mercantile boor, landlord · **What happens:** pride, entertain, purchase, chop down, love · **To what, where:** landlord, love, wholesome contempt, old place, best timber, trees

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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 (Irish country gentleman, mercantile boor, landlord), 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:pg8109:1:64
# text = The Irish country gentleman prides himself on his love of trees, and entertains a very wholesome contempt for the mercantile boor who, on purchasing an old place, chops down the best timber for the market.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	prides	pride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	entertains	entertain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mercantile	mercantile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	boor	boor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	purchasing	purchase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	chops	chop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pride** | present | the Irish country gentleman | landlord |  | landlord's love of trees |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **entertain** | present |  | a wholesome contempt |  |  |  | for the mercantile boor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus contempt=Experiencer |
| 3 | **purchase** | gerund | the mercantile boor | a old place |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **chop down** | present |  | the best timber for the market |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timber=Patient |
| 5 | **love** |  | landlord | trees |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent 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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