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title: Now all this time the periodic celebrations, the games, and lamentat… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all this time the periodic celebrations, the games, and lamentations, and songs would be assuming a more solemn character. Who acts: songs. 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
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 135

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Now all this time the periodic celebrations, the games, and lamentations, and songs would be assuming a more solemn character.

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**Who acts:** songs · **What happens:** assume · **To what, where:** solemn character, time

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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 (songs), 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:pg8109:10:135
# text = Now all this time the periodic celebrations, the games, and lamentations, and songs would be assuming a more solemn character.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	periodic	periodic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	assuming	assume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | would · progressive | songs | a solemn character |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=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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