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title: The reader of these volumes can make such deductions as he pleases,… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The reader of these volumes can make such deductions as he pleases, on this account, from the bardic history of the Red Branch, and clip the wings of the tale, so that it may with him travel pedestrian. Who acts: reader. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Ba
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 57

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The reader of these volumes can make such deductions as he pleases, on this account, from the bardic history of the Red Branch, and clip the wings of the tale, so that it may with him travel pedestrian.

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**Who acts:** reader · **What happens:** make, please, travel · **To what, where:** such deductions, account, pedestrian

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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 (reader), 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:pg8109:3:57
# text = The reader of these volumes can make such deductions as he pleases, on this account, from the bardic history of the Red Branch, and clip the wings of the tale, so that it may with him travel pedestrian.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deductions	deduction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pleases	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
25	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
42	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | the reader of this volumes | such deductions |  |  |  | clip  the wings of the tale *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deduction=Product |
| 2 | **please** | present | reader |  |  | this account |  | from the bardic history of the Red Branch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **travel** | present |  | pedestrian |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pedestrian=Trajectory |

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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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