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title: The tomb, which was once commensurate with the love and reverence wh… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The tomb, which was once commensurate with the love and reverence which he inspired, would seem so now no longer. Who acts: tomb, love. 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 ever
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 130

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The tomb, which was once commensurate with the love and reverence which he inspired, would seem so now no longer.

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**Who acts:** tomb, love · **What happens:** be, inspire, seem

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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 (tomb, love), 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:pg8109:10:130
# text = The tomb, which was once commensurate with the love and reverence which he inspired, would seem so now no longer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	commensurate	commensurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the tomb |  |  |  |  | with the love and reverence; commensurate, once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inspire** | past | the love and reverence |  |  |  |  | tomb *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seem** | would | the tomb |  |  |  | now | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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