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title: Returning now to what would most likely take place after the interme… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Returning now to what would most likely take place after the interment of a hero, we may well imagine that the size of his tomb would be in proportion to the love which he inspired, where no accidental causes would interfere with the gratification of that feeling. Who acts: we, size, love, accidenta
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 124

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Returning now to what would most likely take place after the interment of a hero, we may well imagine that the size of his tomb would be in proportion to the love which he inspired, where no accidental causes would interfere with the gratification of that feeling.

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**Who acts:** we, size, love, accidental causes · **What happens:** return, take, imagine, be, inspire, interfere · **To what, where:** place, proportion, hero, feeling

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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 (we, size, love, accidental causes), 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:pg8109:10:124
# text = Returning now to what would most likely take place after the interment of a hero, we may well imagine that the size of his tomb would be in proportion to the love which he inspired, where no accidental causes would interfere with the gratification of that feeling.
1	Returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	interment	interment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
40	accidental	accidental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	causes	cause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	interfere	interfere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	gratification	gratification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
49	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | would | we *not said here* | place |  |  | after the interment of a hero | what *obj*; likely *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme place=Destination |
| 3 | **imagine** | may | we |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** | would | the size of tomb's tomb |  |  | proportion |  | to the love | tree rules |
| 5 | **inspire** | past | the love |  |  |  |  | tomb *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **interfere** | would | no accidental causes |  |  |  |  | with the gratification of that feeling | tree rules |
| 7 | **inter** |  |  | a hero |  |  |  |  | nom interment «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **gratify** |  |  | that feeling |  |  |  |  | nom gratification «state 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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