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title: _ The poem is not true, even to the leading features of the late per… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The poem is not true, even to the leading features of the late period of history in which it is placed, if it have any habitat in the world of history at all. Who acts: poem, history. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 22

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\_ The poem is not true, even to the leading features of the late period of history in which it is placed, if it have any habitat in the world of history at all.

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**Who acts:** poem, history · **What happens:** not be, lead, place, have, feature · **To what, where:** history, late period, habitat, world

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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 (poem, 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:pg8109:4:22
# text = _ The poem is not true, even to the leading features of the late period of history in which it is placed, if it have any habitat in the world of history at all.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	habitat	habitat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the poem |  |  |  |  | the leading features of the late period of history *parataxis*; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **place** | present · passive |  | history |  | the late period of history |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | history | any habitat |  | the world of history |  | at all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Patient |
| 5 | **feature** |  |  | the late period of history |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition 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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