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title: On the other hand, Irishmen are as ready as others to feel an intere… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other hand, Irishmen are as ready as others to feel an interest in a human character, having themselves the ordinary instincts, passions, and curiosities of human nature. Who acts: Irishmen, others. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 52

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On the other hand, Irishmen are as ready as others to feel an interest in a human character, having themselves the ordinary instincts, passions, and curiosities of human nature.

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**Who acts:** Irishmen, others · **What happens:** be, feel, have · **To what, where:** other hand, interest, human character, others

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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 (Irishmen, 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:pg8109:2:52
# text = On the other hand, Irishmen are as ready as others to feel an interest in a human character, having themselves the ordinary instincts, passions, and curiosities of human nature.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Irishmen	irishman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	instincts	instinct	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	passions	passion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Irishmen |  |  | the other hand |  | curiosities of human nature *conj*; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | others | a interest |  | a human character |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Theme in character=Location |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | others *not said here* | others *= other* |  |  |  | the ordinary instincts and passions *obj* | 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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