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title: A desire to make the house of the god as spacious within as it was g… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: A desire to make the house of the god as spacious within as it was great without, and a desire to transfer his worship, or the more esoteric and solemn part of it, from without to within. Who acts: house, motive. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Thi
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 168

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A desire to make the house of the god as spacious within as it was great without, and a desire to transfer his worship, or the more esoteric and solemn part of it, from without to within.

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**Who acts:** house, motive · **What happens:** make, be, transfer, worship · **To what, where:** house, worship, desire

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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 (house, motive), 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:pg8109:10:168
# text = A desire to make the house of the god as spacious within as it was great without, and a desire to transfer his worship, or the more esoteric and solemn part of it, from without to within.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	transfer	transfer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	esoteric	esoteric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	within	within	ADP	IN	_	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the house of the god as spacious |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **transfer** | to-infinitive |  | motive's worship |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent worship=Theme |
| 5 | **worship** |  | motive |  |  |  |  |  | nom worship «act intransitive»: 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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