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title: Individual, initiative, personal enterprise are content to work with… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Individual, initiative, personal enterprise are content to work within a very small sphere. Who acts: Individual initiative personal enterprise. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 25

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Individual, initiative, personal enterprise are content to work within a very small sphere.

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**Who acts:** Individual initiative personal enterprise · **What happens:** be, work

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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 (Individual initiative personal enterprise), 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:pg8109:3:25
# text = Individual, initiative, personal enterprise are content to work within a very small sphere.
1	Individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	initiative	initiative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sphere	sphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Individual initiative personal enterprise |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | Individual initiative personal enterprise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within a small sphere | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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