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title: I know there are others, like myself, who will not hesitate for once… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: I know there are others, like myself, who will not hesitate for once to let the fancy roam and luxuriate in the larger spaces and freer airs of ancient song, nor fear that their sanity will be imperilled by the shouting of semi-divine heroes, and the sight of Cuculain entering battles with the Tuath
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 58

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I know there are others, like myself, who will not hesitate for once to let the fancy roam and luxuriate in the larger spaces and freer airs of ancient song, nor fear that their sanity will be imperilled by the shouting of semi-divine heroes, and the sight of Cuculain entering battles with the Tuatha De Danan around him.

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**Who acts:** I, others, shouting, sight, semi-divine heroes · **What happens:** know, be, not hesitate, let, luxuriate, imperill · **To what, where:** fancy roam, larger spaces, sanity, battles, Cuculain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, others, shouting, sight), 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:pg8109:3:58
# text = I know there are others, like myself, who will not hesitate for once to let the fancy roam and luxuriate in the larger spaces and freer airs of ancient song, nor fear that their sanity will be imperilled by the shouting of semi-divine heroes, and the sight of Cuculain entering battles with the Tuatha De Danan around him.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	roam	roam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	luxuriate	luxuriate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	freer	free	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	airs	air	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	35	cc	_	_
35	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	sanity	sanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	imperilled	imperill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	semi-divine	semi-divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Cuculain	Cuculain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
55	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
58	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
59	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	flat	_	_
60	Danan	Danan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
61	around	around	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  | fear *parataxis* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **does** | present | others |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hesitate** | future |  |  |  |  |  | like myself; who *nsubj* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | the fancy roam |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roam=Theme |
| 5 | **luxuriate** | infinitive |  |  |  | the larger spaces and freer airs of ancient song |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **imperill** | future · passive | the shouting of semi-divine heroes | others's sanity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **enter** | gerund | the sight of Cuculain | battles |  |  |  | with the Tuatha Danan; around reader | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme battle=Destination |
| 8 | **shout** |  | semi-divine heroes |  |  |  |  |  | nom shouting «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **sight** |  |  | Cuculain |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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