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title: To strengthen still further the general historic credibility of thes… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: To strengthen still further the general historic credibility of these tales, and to show how close to the events and heroes described must have been the bards who originally composed them, I would urge the following considerations. Who acts: bards, I. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 9

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To strengthen still further the general historic credibility of these tales, and to show how close to the events and heroes described must have been the bards who originally composed them, I would urge the following considerations.

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**Who acts:** bards, I · **What happens:** strengthen, show, describe, be, compose, urge · **To what, where:** general historic credibility, bards, tales, following considerations

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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 (bards, I), 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:pg8109:3:9
# text = To strengthen still further the general historic credibility of these tales, and to show how close to the events and heroes described must have been the bards who originally composed them, I would urge the following considerations.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	credibility	credibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	composed	compose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	urge	urge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	amod	_	_
39	considerations	consideration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strengthen** | to-infinitive |  | the general historic credibility of this tales |  |  | still | far *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent credibility=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **describe** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | must · perfect |  | the bards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **compose** | past | the bards | tales *= tale* |  |  |  | originally *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 6 | **urge** | would | I | the following considerations |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consideration=Recipient |
| 7 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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