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title: Indeed, I must confess that the blaze of bardic light which illumina… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 71

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Indeed, I must confess that the blaze of bardic light which illuminates those centuries at first so dazzled the eye and disturbed the judgment, that I saw only the literature, only the epic and dramatic interest, and did not see as I should the distinctly historical character of the age around which that literature revolves, wrongly deeming that a literature so noble, and dealing with events so remote, must have originated mainly or altogether in the imagination.

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**Who acts:** I, bardic light, literature · **What happens:** confess, illuminate, dazzle, disturb, see, not see · **To what, where:** eye, judgment, age, blaze, imagination · **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, bardic light, literature), 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:pg8109:3:71
# text = Indeed, I must confess that the blaze of bardic light which illuminates those centuries at first so dazzled the eye and disturbed the judgment, that I saw only the literature, only the epic and dramatic interest, and did not see as I should the distinctly historical character of the age around which that literature revolves, wrongly deeming that a literature so noble, and dealing with events so remote, must have originated mainly or altogether in the imagination.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	78	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	illuminates	illuminate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
47	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	ccomp	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	around	around	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obl	_	_
57	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	det	_	_
58	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	revolves	revolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	deeming	deem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	59	advcl	_	_
63	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
66	so	so	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
67	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
71	with	with	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	obl	_	_
73	so	so	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	_
74	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
76	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	78	aux	_	_
77	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	78	aux	_	_
78	originated	originate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
79	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	78	advmod	_	_
80	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	81	cc	_	_
81	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	79	conj	_	_
82	in	in	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
83	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	84	det	_	_
84	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | must | I |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **illuminate** | present | bardic light |  |  |  | century |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dazzle** | participle |  | the eye |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |
| 4 | **disturb** | past |  | the judgment |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus judgment=Experiencer |
| 5 | **see** | past | I | the judgment |  |  |  | the literature and the epic interest *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **see** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **character** | should | I |  |  |  | of the age |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **revolve** | present | that literature |  |  |  | around the age |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around which=Trajectory |
| 9 | **deem** | gerund | that literature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **deal** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with events | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with event=Theme |
| 11 | **originate** | must · perfect · passive |  | the blaze of bardic light |  | the imagination |  | mainly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 12 | **blaze** |  | bardic light |  |  |  |  |  | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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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