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title: Of many minor events there are more than one version, and many scene… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Of many minor events there are more than one version, and many scenes and assertions which he may think of importance would yet, by being related, cause inconsistency and contradiction. Who acts: one version, many scenes. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early B
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 63

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Of many minor events there are more than one version, and many scenes and assertions which he may think of importance would yet, by being related, cause inconsistency and contradiction.

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**Who acts:** one version, many scenes · **What happens:** be, think, cause · **To what, where:** inconsistency

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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 (one version, many scenes), 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:pg8109:3:63
# text = Of many minor events there are more than one version, and many scenes and assertions which he may think of importance would yet, by being related, cause inconsistency and contradiction.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	9	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	assertions	assertion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
28	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
31	inconsistency	inconsistency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	contradiction	contradiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one version |  |  | there |  | of many minor events | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | may | many scenes and assertions |  |  |  |  | which *obj*; version *nsubj* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | many scenes and assertions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | related *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cause** | infinitive |  | inconsistency and contradiction |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition inconsistency=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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