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title: To an ardent imaginative people the complete extinction by death of… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: To an ardent imaginative people the complete extinction by death of a much-loved hero would even at first be hardly possible. Who acts: complete extinction, death. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tre
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 138

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To an ardent imaginative people the complete extinction by death of a much-loved hero would even at first be hardly possible.

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**Who acts:** complete extinction, death · **What happens:** love, be, extinguish · **To what, where:** ardent imaginative people, loved hero

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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 (complete extinction, death), 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:pg8109:10:138
# text = To an ardent imaginative people the complete extinction by death of a much-loved hero would even at first be hardly possible.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ardent	ardent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	obl	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | would | the complete extinction by death of a loved hero | a ardent imaginative people *not said here* |  |  |  | hardly, possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **extinguish** |  | death | a loved hero |  |  |  |  | nom extinction «state transitive»: by=agent 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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