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title: What it scorns or ignores, the world, too, ignores and scorns. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: What it scorns or ignores, the world, too, ignores and scorns. Who acts: culture. 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 clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 50

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What it scorns or ignores, the world, too, ignores and scorns.

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**Who acts:** culture · **What happens:** scorn, ignore · **To what, where:** 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 (culture), 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:pg8109:4:50
# text = What it scorns or ignores, the world, too, ignores and scorns.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scorns	scorn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ignores	ignore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ignores	ignore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	scorns	scorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scorn** | present | culture |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **ignore** | present | culture *not said here* | the world |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ignore** | present |  |  |  |  |  | scorns *conj* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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