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title: The absence of an imaginative literature other than historical shows… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The absence of an imaginative literature other than historical shows also that the literature must have followed, regularly, the course of the history, and was not an archaeological attempt to create an interest in names and events which were found in the chronicles. A sentence of «Early Bardic Lite
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 74

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The absence of an imaginative literature other than historical shows also that the literature must have followed, regularly, the course of the history, and was not an archaeological attempt to create an interest in names and events which were found in the chronicles.

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**What happens:** follow, not be, create, find, absent · **To what, where:** absence, archaeological attempt, interest, names, chronicles, imaginative literature

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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:pg8109:2:74
# text = The absence of an imaginative literature other than historical shows also that the literature must have followed, regularly, the course of the history, and was not an archaeological attempt to create an interest in names and events which were found in the chronicles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl:relcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | must · perfect · passive |  | the absence of a imaginative literature |  |  |  | the course of the history *obl*; the literature *nsubj:pass*; regularly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a archaeological attempt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **create** | to-infinitive |  | a interest |  | names and events |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Result |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive |  | names and events |  | the chronicles |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **absent** |  |  | a imaginative literature |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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