--- title: A people who alone in Europe preserved, not in dry chronicles alone,… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics description: A people who alone in Europe preserved, not in dry chronicles alone, but illuminated and adorned with all that fancy could suggest in ballad, and tale, and rude epic, the history of the mound-raising period, are not justly liable to this taunt. Who acts: people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8109:1:69 # text = A people who alone in Europe preserved, not in dry chronicles alone, but illuminated and adorned with all that fancy could suggest in ballad, and tale, and rude epic, the history of the mound-raising period, are not justly liable to this taunt. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 preserved preserve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 chronicles chronicle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 alone alone ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 illuminated illuminate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 suggest suggest VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ballad ballad NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 epic epic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 39 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 raising raise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ _ 42 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 46 justly justly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 liable liable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 det _ _ 50 taunt taunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **preserve** | past | a people in Europe | tale | | dry chronicles | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **illuminate** | participle | | | | | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **adorn** | participle | | | | | | with all fancy | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fancy=Theme | | 4 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | could | | | | ballad | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **raise** | gerund | | | | | | mound *compound* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | a people in Europe *not said here* | | | | | to this taunt; justly, liable *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/70/) - ↑ back to [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/)