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title: How this divine cycle can be expunged from the history of Ireland I… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: How this divine cycle can be expunged from the history of Ireland I am at a loss to see. Who acts: I. 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 83

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How this divine cycle can be expunged from the history of Ireland I am at a loss to see.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** expunge, be, see · **To what, where:** divine cycle, history, loss

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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 (I), 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:pg8109:10:83
# text = How this divine cycle can be expunged from the history of Ireland I am at a loss to see.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	expunged	expunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expunge** | can · passive |  | this divine cycle |  | the history of Ireland |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from history=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  | a loss |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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