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title: An Irishman can no more release himself from his history than he can… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: An Irishman can no more release himself from his history than he can absolve himself from social and domestic duties. Who acts: Haman. 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 ever
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 3

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An Irishman can no more release himself from his history than he can absolve himself from social and domestic duties.

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**Who acts:** Haman · **What happens:** absolve · **To what, where:** Haman, social duties, more release

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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 (Haman), 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:pg8109:4:3
# text = An Irishman can no more release himself from his history than he can absolve himself from social and domestic duties.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Irishman	irishman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	absolve	absolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **absolve** | can | Haman | Haman |  | social duties |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source |

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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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