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title: Gradually, as his actual achievements became more remote, and the im… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Gradually, as his actual achievements became more remote, and the imagination of the bards, proportionately, more unrestrained, he would pass into the world of the supernatural. Who acts: actual achievements, Wexford. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs an
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 102

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Gradually, as his actual achievements became more remote, and the imagination of the bards, proportionately, more unrestrained, he would pass into the world of the supernatural.

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**Who acts:** actual achievements, Wexford · **What happens:** become, pass, achieve, imagine · **To what, where:** world, bards

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (actual achievements, Wexford), 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:pg8109:10:102
# text = Gradually, as his actual achievements became more remote, and the imagination of the bards, proportionately, more unrestrained, he would pass into the world of the supernatural.
1	Gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	achievements	achievement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	proportionately	proportionately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	unrestrained	unrestrained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Wexford's actual achievements |  |  |  |  | gradually, remote, unrestrained *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | would | Wexford |  |  | the world of the supernatural |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **achieve** |  | Wexford |  |  |  |  |  | nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **imagine** |  |  | the bards |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: 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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