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title: But if this be the case, we are enabled to take another step in the… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: But if this be the case, we are enabled to take another step in the history of this most valuable literature. Who acts: this, we. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 17

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But if this be the case, we are enabled to take another step in the history of this most valuable literature.

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**Who acts:** this, we · **What happens:** be, enable, take · **To what, where:** case, we, step, history

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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 (this, we), 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:pg8109:3:17
# text = But if this be the case, we are enabled to take another step in the history of this most valuable literature.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	enabled	enable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | this | the case |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enable** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | another step |  | the history of this valuable literature |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent step=Value in history=Location |

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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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