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title: And yet the last transcription or recension of the majority of the t… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet the last transcription or recension of the majority of the tales was effected in Christian times, and in an age characterised by considerable classical attainments--a time when the imagination might have been expected to shake itself loose from old restraints, and freely invent. Who acts: im
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 38

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And yet the last transcription or recension of the majority of the tales was effected in Christian times, and in an age characterised by considerable classical attainments--a time when the imagination might have been expected to shake itself loose from old restraints, and freely invent.

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**Who acts:** imagination · **What happens:** affect, characteris, expect, shake, invent · **To what, where:** last transcription, age, imagination, old restraints

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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 (imagination), 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:pg8109:3:38
# text = And yet the last transcription or recension of the majority of the tales was effected in Christian times, and in an age characterised by considerable classical attainments--a time when the imagination might have been expected to shake itself loose from old restraints, and freely invent.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	transcription	transcription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	recension	recension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	effected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	characterised	characteris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	attainments	attainment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	restraints	restraint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	invent	invent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | past · passive |  | the last transcription or recension of the majority of the tales |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **characteris** | participle |  |  |  |  | in a age | by considerable classical attainments and a time | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** | might · perfect · passive |  | the imagination |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the imagination *not said here* | imagination |  | old restraints |  | loose *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme from restraint=Trajectory |
| 5 | **invent** | present |  |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «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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