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title: As matter of fact, the bardic writings teem with this idea. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: As matter of fact, the bardic writings teem with this idea. Who acts: bardic writings, fact. 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 144

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As matter of fact, the bardic writings teem with this idea.

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**Who acts:** bardic writings, fact · **What happens:** teem, matter

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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 (bardic writings, fact), 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:pg8109:10:144
# text = As matter of fact, the bardic writings teem with this idea.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	teem	teem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teem** | present | the bardic writings |  |  |  |  | as matter of fact; with this idea | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with idea=Theme |
| 2 | **matter** |  | fact |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition 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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