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title: The error of the mediaeval historians is shared by the not wiser mod… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The error of the mediaeval historians is shared by the not wiser moderns. Who acts: wiser moderns, mediaeval historians. 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 13

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The error of the mediaeval historians is shared by the not wiser moderns.

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**Who acts:** wiser moderns, mediaeval historians · **What happens:** share, err · **To what, where:** error

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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 (wiser moderns, mediaeval historians), 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:pg8109:10:13
# text = The error of the mediaeval historians is shared by the not wiser moderns.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mediaeval	mediaeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	moderns	modern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present · passive | the wiser moderns | the error of the mediaeval historians |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **err** |  | the mediaeval historians |  |  |  |  |  | nom error «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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