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title: No one can peruse this ancient literature without seeing clearly the… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: No one can peruse this ancient literature without seeing clearly the genesis of the Irish gods, _videlicet_ heroes, passing, through the imagination and through the region of poetic representation, into the world of the supernatural. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» b
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 97

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No one can peruse this ancient literature without seeing clearly the genesis of the Irish gods, \_videlicet\_ heroes, passing, through the imagination and through the region of poetic representation, into the world of the supernatural.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** peruse, see, pass · **To what, where:** ancient literature, genesis, imagination, world

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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 (one), 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:pg8109:10:97
# text = No one can peruse this ancient literature without seeing clearly the genesis of the Irish gods, _videlicet_ heroes, passing, through the imagination and through the region of poetic representation, into the world of the supernatural.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	peruse	peruse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	genesis	genesis	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	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	videlicet	videlicet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
21	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peruse** | can | no one | this ancient literature |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent literature=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | no one *not said here* | the genesis of the Irish gods and videlicet |  |  |  | heroes *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund | no one *not said here* | the imagination and the region of poetic representation |  | the world of the supernatural |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent imagination=Theme into world=Destination |

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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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