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title: I desire to make this heroic period once again a portion of the imag… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: I desire to make this heroic period once again a portion of the imagination of the country, and its chief characters as familiar in the minds of our people as they once were. Who acts: I, others. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 46

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I desire to make this heroic period once again a portion of the imagination of the country, and its chief characters as familiar in the minds of our people as they once were.

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**Who acts:** I, others · **What happens:** desire, make, be, imagine, mind · **To what, where:** chief characters, heroic period, country, people

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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 (I, others), 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:pg8109:2:46
# text = I desire to make this heroic period once again a portion of the imagination of the country, and its chief characters as familiar in the minds of our people as they once were.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **desire** | present | I | imagination's chief characters as familiar in the minds of our people |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this heroic period |  |  |  | a portion of the imagination of the country *obl*; once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset period=Product |
| 3 | **be** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **imagine** |  |  | the country |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **mind** |  |  | our people |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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