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title: There are two compositions which affect an interest comparable to th… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: There are two compositions which affect an interest comparable to that which Ireland claims for her bardic literature, One is the Ossian of MacPherson, the other the Nibelungen Lied. Who acts: two compositions, Ireland, One. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Earl
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 10

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There are two compositions which affect an interest comparable to that which Ireland claims for her bardic literature, One is the Ossian of MacPherson, the other the Nibelungen Lied.

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**Who acts:** two compositions, Ireland, One · **What happens:** be, affect, claim · **To what, where:** interest, Ossian

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two compositions, Ireland, One), 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:pg8109:4:10
# text = There are two compositions which affect an interest comparable to that which Ireland claims for her bardic literature, One is the Ossian of MacPherson, the other the Nibelungen Lied.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	compositions	composition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	affect	affect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	comparable	comparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	MacPherson	MacPherson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Lied	Lied	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | two compositions |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **affect** | present | two compositions | a interest |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus interest=Experiencer |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Ireland | a interest |  |  |  | for Ireland's bardic literature | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | One | the Ossian and the Nibelungen Lied |  |  |  | of MacPherson; the Nibelungen Lied *conj* | tree rules |

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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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