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title: Truer to the antique these latter are, for in them the cycles are no… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Truer to the antique these latter are, for in them the cycles are not blended. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 13

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Truer to the antique these latter are, for in them the cycles are not blended.

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**What happens:** be, not blend · **To what, where:** cycles

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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:pg8109:4:13
# text = Truer to the antique these latter are, for in them the cycles are not blended.
1	Truer	true	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	antique	antique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cycles	cycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	blended	blend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the antique; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **blend** | present · passive |  | the cycles |  |  |  | in poems *= poem* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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