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title: But in Irish history there remains, demanding treatment, that other… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: But in Irish history there remains, demanding treatment, that other immense mass of literature of an imaginative nature, illuminating with anecdote and tale the events and personages mentioned simply and without comment by the chronicler. Who acts: other immense mass, chronicler. A sentence of «Earl
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 10

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But in Irish history there remains, demanding treatment, that other immense mass of literature of an imaginative nature, illuminating with anecdote and tale the events and personages mentioned simply and without comment by the chronicler.

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**Who acts:** other immense mass, chronicler · **What happens:** demand, illuminate, mention, comment · **To what, where:** Irish history

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other immense mass, chronicler), 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:pg8109:2:10
# text = But in Irish history there remains, demanding treatment, that other immense mass of literature of an imaginative nature, illuminating with anecdote and tale the events and personages mentioned simply and without comment by the chronicler.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
5	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	demanding	demand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	illuminating	illuminate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	without	without	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	chronicler	chronicler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	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 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **illuminate** | gerund | other immense mass of literature of a imaginative nature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with anecdote and tale and the events and personages | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with anecdote=Theme |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  | Irish history and other immense mass of literature of a imaginative nature |  | without comment by the chronicler; simply *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **comment** |  | the chronicler |  |  |  |  |  | nom comment «communication transitive»: by=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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