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title: It must be a public and national undertaking, carried out under the… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: It must be a public and national undertaking, carried out under the supervision of the Royal Irish Academy, at the expense of the country. Who acts: work. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 43

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It must be a public and national undertaking, carried out under the supervision of the Royal Irish Academy, at the expense of the country.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** be, carry out, supervise · **To what, where:** public, supervision, Royal Irish Academy

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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 (work), 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:pg8109:2:43
# text = It must be a public and national undertaking, carried out under the supervision of the Royal Irish Academy, at the expense of the country.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	supervision	supervision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Academy	Academy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | must | work | a public and national undertaking |  |  |  | national undertaking *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry out** | participle |  | a public and national undertaking *not said here* |  | the supervision of the Royal Irish Academy |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **supervise** |  |  | the Royal Irish Academy |  |  |  |  | nom supervision «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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