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title: The students of Irish literature do not require to be told this; for… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The students of Irish literature do not require to be told this; for those who are not, I would give a single instance as an illustration. Who acts: students, I. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, with its dependency tree
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 59

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The students of Irish literature do not require to be told this; for those who are not, I would give a single instance as an illustration.

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**Who acts:** students, I · **What happens:** not require, tell, give · **To what, where:** this, single instance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (students, I), 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:pg8109:2:59
# text = The students of Irish literature do not require to be told this; for those who are not, I would give a single instance as an illustration.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **require** | present · do-support | the students of Irish literature |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive | the students of Irish literature *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: this=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** | would | I | a single instance |  |  |  | for those; as a illustration | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent instance=Theme for that=Asset |

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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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