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description: The Ossianic tales and poems still told and sung by the Irish peasantry at the present day in the country of Ossian and Oscar, would be, if collected even now, quite as valuable, if not more so. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.,
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 12

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The Ossianic tales and poems still told and sung by the Irish peasantry at the present day in the country of Ossian and Oscar, would be, if collected even now, quite as valuable, if not more so.

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**What happens:** tell, sing, collect · **To what, where:** poems, Ossianic tales · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8109:4:12
# text = The Ossianic tales and poems still told and sung by the Irish peasantry at the present day in the country of Ossian and Oscar, would be, if collected even now, quite as valuable, if not more so.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ossianic	ossianic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | poems *not said here* |  |  | still |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  | day | by the Irish peasantry | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by peasantry=Location |
| 3 | **collect** | would · passive |  | the Ossianic tales and poems |  |  | now |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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