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title: The scribe who appended this very interesting comment to the subject… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The scribe who appended this very interesting comment to the subject of his own handiwork must have been removed by centuries from the date of its compilation. Who acts: scribe, date. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, wi
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 35

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The scribe who appended this very interesting comment to the subject of his own handiwork must have been removed by centuries from the date of its compilation.

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**Who acts:** scribe, date · **What happens:** append, remove, compile · **To what, where:** interesting comment, scribe, date

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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 (scribe, date), 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:pg8109:4:35
# text = The scribe who appended this very interesting comment to the subject of his own handiwork must have been removed by centuries from the date of its compilation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appended	append	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	handiwork	handiwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	compilation	compilation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **append** | past | the scribe | this interesting comment |  |  |  | to the subject of subject's own handiwork | tree rules |
| 2 | **remove** | must · perfect · passive |  | the scribe |  | the date of date's compilation | century |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from date=Source |
| 3 | **compile** |  | date |  |  |  |  |  | nom compilation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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