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title: A work treating of early Irish kings, in the same way in which the h… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: A work treating of early Irish kings, in the same way in which the historians of neighbouring countries treat of their own early kings, would be, to the Irish public generally, unreadable. Who acts: work, historians. 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 49

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A work treating of early Irish kings, in the same way in which the historians of neighbouring countries treat of their own early kings, would be, to the Irish public generally, unreadable.

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**Who acts:** work, historians · **What happens:** treat, be · **To what, where:** same way

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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, historians), 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:pg8109:2:49
# text = A work treating of early Irish kings, in the same way in which the historians of neighbouring countries treat of their own early kings, would be, to the Irish public generally, unreadable.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
3	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
34	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	unreadable	unreadable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | gerund | a work *not said here* |  |  | the same way |  | of early Irish kings | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **treat** | present | the historians of neighbouring countries |  |  | the same way |  | of countries's own early kings | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would | a work |  |  |  |  | to the Irish public; generally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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