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title: Such is the whole of the Irish literature, not vague, nebulous, and… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Such is the whole of the Irish literature, not vague, nebulous, and shifting, but following the course of the _fasti_, and regulated and determined by them. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 66

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Such is the whole of the Irish literature, not vague, nebulous, and shifting, but following the course of the \_fasti\_, and regulated and determined by them.

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**What happens:** be, shift, follow, regulate, determine · **To what, where:** course

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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: 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:pg8109:2:66
# text = Such is the whole of the Irish literature, not vague, nebulous, and shifting, but following the course of the _fasti_, and regulated and determined by them.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	nebulous	nebulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shifting	shift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	fasti	fasti	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	regulated	regulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the Irish literature; whole *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shift** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  | the course of the fasti |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 4 | **regulate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **determine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by fasti | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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