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title: Moreover, this same conservatism would have caused the tales concern… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, this same conservatism would have caused the tales concerning heroes to grow very slowly once they were actually formed. 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 cl
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 32

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Moreover, this same conservatism would have caused the tales concerning heroes to grow very slowly once they were actually formed.

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**What happens:** cause, grow, form · **To what, where:** same conservatism, tales

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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: 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:pg8109:3:32
# text = Moreover, this same conservatism would have caused the tales concerning heroes to grow very slowly once they were actually formed.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	conservatism	conservatism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **cause** | would · perfect · passive |  | this same conservatism |  |  |  | the tales and concerning heroes *obj*; moreover *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme tale=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **form** | past · passive |  | tales *= tale* |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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