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title: The true method would certainly be to print it exactly as it is with… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The true method would certainly be to print it exactly as it is without excision or condensation. Who acts: true method, history. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 22

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The true method would certainly be to print it exactly as it is without excision or condensation.

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**Who acts:** true method, history · **What happens:** be

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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 (true method, history), 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:pg8109:2:22
# text = The true method would certainly be to print it exactly as it is without excision or condensation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	print	print	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	excision	excision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	condensation	condensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the true method |  |  |  |  | history *obj*; certainly, print *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | history |  |  |  |  | as excision or condensation; condensation *conj*; exactly *property* | 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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