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description: As mere history, and treated in the method in which history is generally written at the present day, a work dealing with the early Irish kings and heroes would certainly not secure an audience. Who acts: work. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Litera
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 47

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As mere history, and treated in the method in which history is generally written at the present day, a work dealing with the early Irish kings and heroes would certainly not secure an audience.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** treat, write, deal, not secure · **To what, where:** mere history, method, audience

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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:pg8109:2:47
# text = As mere history, and treated in the method in which history is generally written at the present day, a work dealing with the early Irish kings and heroes would certainly not secure an audience.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
23	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | participle |  | mere history *not said here* |  | the method in which history |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | present · passive |  | mere history |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **deal** | gerund | a work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the early Irish kings and heroes | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with king=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **secure** | would | a work | a audience |  |  | day | certainly *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition audience=Theme |

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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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