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title: It still haunts the imagination, like Mordecai at Haman's gate, a ca… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: It still haunts the imagination, like Mordecai at Haman's gate, a cause of continual annoyance and vexation. Who acts: history. 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 claus
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 2

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It still haunts the imagination, like Mordecai at Haman's gate, a cause of continual annoyance and vexation.

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**Who acts:** history · **What happens:** haunt, cause · **To what, where:** imagination, continual annoyance

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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 (history), 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:pg8109:4:2
# text = It still haunts the imagination, like Mordecai at Haman's gate, a cause of continual annoyance and vexation.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	haunts	haunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mordecai	Mordecai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Haman	Haman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haunt** | present | history | the imagination |  |  | still |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus imagination=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | continual annoyance and vexation |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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