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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 90

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This being the case, modern philosophy, accounting for the origin of the classical deities by guesses and \_a priori\_ reasonings, has almost universally adopted that explanation which I have, elsewhere, called Wordsworthian, and which derives them directly from the imagination personifying the aspects of nature.

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**Who acts:** This, case, I, imagination · **What happens:** be, account, adopt, have, call, derive · **To what, where:** case, explanation, gods, imagination, aspects · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, case, I, imagination), 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:pg8109:10:90
# text = This being the case, modern philosophy, accounting for the origin of the classical deities by guesses and _a priori_ reasonings, has almost universally adopted that explanation which I have, elsewhere, called Wordsworthian, and which derives them directly from the imagination personifying the aspects of nature.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	accounting	account	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deities	deity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	priori	priori	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
24	reasonings	reasoning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
31	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
39	Wordsworthian	wordsworthian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	derives	derive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	personifying	personify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	aspects	aspect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | This | the case |  |  |  | modern philosophy *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **account** | gerund | the case *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the origin of the classical deities; by guesses and a priori and reasonings | tree rules |
| 3 | **adopt** | present · perfect · passive |  | the case |  |  |  | universally *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | explanation |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **call** | participle · passive |  | explanation |  |  |  | wordsworthian *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **derive** | present |  | gods *= god* |  | the imagination |  | which *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent they=Result from imagination=Material |
| 7 | **personify** | gerund | the imagination *not said here* | the aspects of nature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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