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title: Had the ethnic civilisation of Ireland been suffered to develop acco… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Had the ethnic civilisation of Ireland been suffered to develop according to its own laws, it is probable that, as the roofed central chamber of the cairn would have grown until it filled the space occupied by the mound, so the open-walled temple would have developed into a covered building, by the 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 172

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Had the ethnic civilisation of Ireland been suffered to develop according to its own laws, it is probable that, as the roofed central chamber of the cairn would have grown until it filled the space occupied by the mound, so the open-walled temple would have developed into a covered building, by the elevation of the walls, and their gradual inclination to the centre.

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**Who acts:** civilisation, chamber, walled temple, cairns · **What happens:** have, suffer, develop, accord, be, roof · **To what, where:** ethnic civilisation, Ireland, roofed central chamber, space, covered building, walls

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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 (civilisation, chamber, walled temple, cairns), 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:pg8109:10:172
# text = Had the ethnic civilisation of Ireland been suffered to develop according to its own laws, it is probable that, as the roofed central chamber of the cairn would have grown until it filled the space occupied by the mound, so the open-walled temple would have developed into a covered building, by the elevation of the walls, and their gradual inclination to the centre.
1	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	roofed	roof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
25	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
32	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	amod	_	_
48	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
49	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux	_	_
51	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	amod	_	_
55	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	by	by	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
65	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
66	gradual	gradual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	inclination	inclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
68	to	to	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the ethnic civilisation |  |  |  | cairns's gradual inclination to the centre *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent civilisation=Patient |
| 2 | **suffer** | participle · passive |  | Ireland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **develop** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | accord civilisation's own laws | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | civilisation |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; probable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **roof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **grow** | would · perfect · passive |  | the roofed central chamber of the cairn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **fill** | past | chamber | the space |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient |
| 9 | **occupy** | participle |  | the space *not said here* |  |  |  | by the mound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **develop** | would · perfect | the walled temple |  |  | a covered building |  | by the elevation of the walls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by elevation=Location |
| 12 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **elevate** |  |  | the walls |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 14 | **incline** |  | cairns *= cairn* |  |  |  |  | to the centre | nom inclination «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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