---
title: Be it remembered, that the poem does not purport to be a collection… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Be it remembered, that the poem does not purport to be a collection of the scattered fragments of a cycle, but an original composition, then actually imagined and written. Who acts: poem. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/4/18/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/) / [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/4/) / 18

# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Be it remembered, that the poem does not purport to be a collection of the scattered fragments of a cycle, but an original composition, then actually imagined and written.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** poem · **What happens:** remember, not purport, be, imagine, write · **To what, where:** style, collection, original composition

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (poem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8109:4:18
# text = Be it remembered, that the poem does not purport to be a collection of the scattered fragments of a cycle, but an original composition, then actually imagined and written.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	purport	purport	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	18	amod	_	_
18	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | infinitive · passive |  | style |  |  |  | a original composition *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **purport** | present · do-support | the poem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the poem *not said here* | a collection |  |  |  | of the scattered fragments of a cycle | tree rules |
| 4 | **imagine** | participle |  | a original composition *not said here* |  |  | then | actually *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/4/17/)
- next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/4/19/)
- ↑ back to [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/4/)