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title: There is a _nodus_ here needing a god to solve it. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a _nodus_ here needing a god to solve it. Who acts: _ nodus. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 123

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There is a \_nodus\_ here needing a god to solve it.

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**Who acts:** \_ nodus · **What happens:** be, need, solve · **To what, where:** god, nodus

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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 (\_ nodus), 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:pg8109:10:123
# text = There is a _nodus_ here needing a god to solve it.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	nodus	nodus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
8	needing	need	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a \_ nodus |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | gerund | a \_ nodus *not said here* | a god |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot god=Theme |
| 3 | **solve** | to-infinitive | a \_ nodus *not said here* | nodus |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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