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title: Exact-thinking, scientific France has not hesitated to paint the bat… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Exact-thinking, scientific France has not hesitated to paint the battles of Louis XIV. with similar hues; and England, though by no means fertile in angelic interpositions, delights to adorn the barren tracts of her more popular histories with apocryphal anecdotes. Who acts: scientific France. A sen
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 20

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Exact-thinking, scientific France has not hesitated to paint the battles of Louis XIV. with similar hues; and England, though by no means fertile in angelic interpositions, delights to adorn the barren tracts of her more popular histories with apocryphal anecdotes.

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**Who acts:** scientific France · **What happens:** think, not hesitate, paint, mean, adorn, battle · **To what, where:** England, battles, barren tracts, Louis XIV · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (scientific France), 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:pg8109:2:20
# text = Exact-thinking, scientific France has not hesitated to paint the battles of Louis XIV. with similar hues; and England, though by no means fertile in angelic interpositions, delights to adorn the barren tracts of her more popular histories with apocryphal anecdotes.
1	Exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	XIV	XIV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hues	hue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	obl	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
29	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	angelic	angelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	interpositions	interposition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	tracts	tract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	_
42	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	43	advmod	_	_
43	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	histories	history	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	apocryphal	apocryphal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **hesitate** | present · perfect | scientific France | England |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **paint** | to-infinitive | scientific France *not said here* | the battles of Louis XIV |  |  |  | with similar hues | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent battle=Destination with hue=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by no; fertile *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **adorn** | to-infinitive |  | the barren tracts of France |  |  |  | popular histories *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **battle** |  |  | Louis XIV |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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