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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 29

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So much is this the case, that in many tales the most flagrant contradictions appear, the author or scribe being unwilling to depart at all from that which he found handed down.

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**Who acts:** many tales · **What happens:** be, appear, scribe, depart, find, hand down · **To what, where:** case, author, all

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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 (many tales), 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:pg8109:3:29
# text = So much is this the case, that in many tales the most flagrant contradictions appear, the author or scribe being unwilling to depart at all from that which he found handed down.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	flagrant	flagrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	contradictions	contradiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	scribe	scribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
33	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this case |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | many tales  the flagrant contradictions | the author |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scribe** | infinitive | many tales  the flagrant contradictions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | many tales  the flagrant contradictions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unwilling *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **depart** | to-infinitive | many tales  the flagrant contradictions *not said here* |  |  | all |  | from that | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from that=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **find** | past |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; society *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **hand down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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