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title: It would never make its way through that frozen zone which, on this… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: It would never make its way through that frozen zone which, on this subject, surrounds the Irish mind. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 51

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It would never make its way through that frozen zone which, on this subject, surrounds the Irish mind.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** not make, freeze, surround · **To what, where:** way, frozen zone, Irish mind

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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:pg8109:2:51
# text = It would never make its way through that frozen zone which, on this subject, surrounds the Irish mind.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	surrounds	surround	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | would | work | work's way |  | that frozen zone |  | this subject *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material way=Product |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **surround** | present | work *not said here* | the Irish mind |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Co-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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