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title: Even in this passage the writer seems to have been unable to disposs… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Even in this passage the writer seems to have been unable to dispossess his mind quite of the traditional belief that the Brugh was the Dagda's house. Who acts: passage, Brugh, writer. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., wi
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 164

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Even in this passage the writer seems to have been unable to dispossess his mind quite of the traditional belief that the Brugh was the Dagda's house.

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**Who acts:** passage, Brugh, writer · **What happens:** seem, be, dispossess, mind · **To what, where:** mind, house

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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 (passage, Brugh, writer), 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:pg8109:10:164
# text = Even in this passage the writer seems to have been unable to dispossess his mind quite of the traditional belief that the Brugh was the Dagda's house.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dispossess	dispossess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Brugh	Brugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Dagda	Dagda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | this passage |  |  |  |  | the writer *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive · perfect | this passage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dispossess** | to-infinitive | this passage *not said here* | writer's mind |  |  |  | of the traditional belief | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mind=Source of belief=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the Brugh | the Dagda's house |  |  |  | the Dagda *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** |  | writer |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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