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title: Unlike those who write on other subjects, the author of a work on Ir… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Unlike those who write on other subjects, the author of a work on Irish history has to labour simultaneously at a two-fold task--he has to create the interest to which he intends to address himself. Who acts: author. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 3

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Unlike those who write on other subjects, the author of a work on Irish history has to labour simultaneously at a two-fold task--he has to create the interest to which he intends to address himself.

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**Who acts:** author · **What happens:** write, have, create, intend, address · **To what, where:** other subjects, labour, fold task, interest, author

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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 (author), 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:pg8109:2:3
# text = Unlike those who write on other subjects, the author of a work on Irish history has to labour simultaneously at a two-fold task--he has to create the interest to which he intends to address himself.
1	Unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	intends	intend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present |  |  |  | other subjects |  | who *nsubj* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on subject=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present | the author of a work on Irish history | labour |  | a fold task |  | unlike those | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | author |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **create** | to-infinitive | author *not said here* | the interest |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Result |
| 5 | **intend** | present | author |  |  |  |  | to the interest | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **address** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | author *not said here* | author |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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