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title: If I can awake an interest in the career of even a single ancient Ir… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: If I can awake an interest in the career of even a single ancient Irish king, I shall establish a train of thoughts, which will advance easily from thence to the state of society in which he lived, and the kings and heroes who surrounded, preceded, or followed him. Who acts: I, thoughts, way, kings.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 53

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If I can awake an interest in the career of even a single ancient Irish king, I shall establish a train of thoughts, which will advance easily from thence to the state of society in which he lived, and the kings and heroes who surrounded, preceded, or followed him.

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**Who acts:** I, thoughts, way, kings · **What happens:** awake, establish, advance, live, surround, precede · **To what, where:** interest, career, train, society, kings, 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 (I, thoughts, way, kings), 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:pg8109:2:53
# text = If I can awake an interest in the career of even a single ancient Irish king, I shall establish a train of thoughts, which will advance easily from thence to the state of society in which he lived, and the kings and heroes who surrounded, preceded, or followed him.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	advance	advance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	preceded	precede	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I | a interest |  | the career of a single ancient Irish king |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location interest=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | shall | I | a train of thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Patient |
| 3 | **advance** | future | thoughts |  |  |  |  | easily, thence *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **live** | past | way |  |  | society |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 5 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | the kings and heroes |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **precede** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **follow** | past | the kings and heroes | way |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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