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title: It is, therefore, probable that the age of production and creation,… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: It is, therefore, probable that the age of production and creation, with regard to the ethnic history, ceased about the fifth and sixth centuries, and that, about that time, men began to gather up into a collected form the floating literature connected with the pagan period. Who acts: loss, men. A s
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 15

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It is, therefore, probable that the age of production and creation, with regard to the ethnic history, ceased about the fifth and sixth centuries, and that, about that time, men began to gather up into a collected form the floating literature connected with the pagan period.

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**Who acts:** loss, men · **What happens:** be, cease, begin, gather up, collect, float · **To what, where:** that, floating literature

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loss, men), 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:pg8109:3:15
# text = It is, therefore, probable that the age of production and creation, with regard to the ethnic history, ceased about the fifth and sixth centuries, and that, about that time, men began to gather up into a collected form the floating literature connected with the pagan period.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	amod	_	_
48	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
49	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | loss |  |  |  | the age of production and creation | regard to the ethnic history *parataxis*; probable, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cease** | participle | loss *not said here* |  |  |  | century |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **begin** | past | men | that |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **gather up** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a collected form | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into form=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **collect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **connect** | participle |  | the floating literature *not said here* |  |  |  | with the pagan period | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with period=Co-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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