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title: With regard to the other, the Germans, who naturally desire to refer… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: With regard to the other, the Germans, who naturally desire to refer its composition to as remote a date as possible, and who arguing from no scientific data, but only style, ascribe the authorship of the Nibelungen to a poet living in the latter part of the twelfth century. Who acts: Germans, style
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 17

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With regard to the other, the Germans, who naturally desire to refer its composition to as remote a date as possible, and who arguing from no scientific data, but only style, ascribe the authorship of the Nibelungen to a poet living in the latter part of the twelfth century.

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**Who acts:** Germans, style, poet · **What happens:** desire, refer, remote, argue, ascribe, live · **To what, where:** composition, date, scientific data, authorship, latter part

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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 (Germans, style, poet), 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:pg8109:4:17
# text = With regard to the other, the Germans, who naturally desire to refer its composition to as remote a date as possible, and who arguing from no scientific data, but only style, ascribe the authorship of the Nibelungen to a poet living in the latter part of the twelfth century.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	remote	remote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	ascribe	ascribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	authorship	authorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present | the Germans |  |  |  |  | with regard to the other; who *nsubj*; naturally *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **refer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Germans *not said here* | regard's composition |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent composition=Theme |
| 3 | **remote** | to-infinitive | the Germans *not said here* | a date |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  | no scientific data |  | who *nsubj* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ascribe** | infinitive | style | the authorship of the Nibelungen |  |  |  | to a poet | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | a poet *not said here* |  |  | the latter part of the twelfth century |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |

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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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