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title: The story seems to progress too much in the air, too little in time… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The story seems to progress too much in the air, too little in time and space, and seems to be more of the nature of legend and romance than of actual historic fact seen through an imaginative medium. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardi
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 69

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The story seems to progress too much in the air, too little in time and space, and seems to be more of the nature of legend and romance than of actual historic fact seen through an imaginative medium.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** seem, be, see · **To what, where:** progress, actual historic fact, imaginative medium

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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 (story), 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:pg8109:3:69
# text = The story seems to progress too much in the air, too little in time and space, and seems to be more of the nature of legend and romance than of actual historic fact seen through an imaginative medium.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	medium	medium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the story | progress  much in the air |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the nature of legend and romance; than actual historic fact; more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | participle |  | actual historic fact *not said here* |  | a imaginative medium |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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