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title: Not only as the oldest Tradition of Modern Europe does it--the Nibel… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Not only as the oldest Tradition of Modern Europe does it--the Nibelungen--possess a high antiquarian interest, but farther, and even in the shape we now see it under, unless the epics of the son of Fingal had some sort of authenticity, it is our oldest poem also." Who acts: oldest Tradition, epic, 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 55

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Not only as the oldest Tradition of Modern Europe does it--the Nibelungen--possess a high antiquarian interest, but farther, and even in the shape we now see it under, unless the epics of the son of Fingal had some sort of authenticity, it is our oldest poem also."

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**Who acts:** oldest Tradition, epic, we, epics · **What happens:** not do, possess, see, have, be, sort · **To what, where:** Vol., high antiquarian interest, shape, sort, oldest poem, authenticity

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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 (oldest Tradition, epic, we, epics), 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:pg8109:4:55
# text = Not only as the oldest Tradition of Modern Europe does it--the Nibelungen--possess a high antiquarian interest, but farther, and even in the shape we now see it under, unless the epics of the son of Fingal had some sort of authenticity, it is our oldest poem also."
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	Tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	antiquarian	antiquarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	under	under	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	epics	epic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Fingal	Fingal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	authenticity	authenticity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	54	amod	_	_
54	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
55	also	also	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present | the oldest Tradition of Modern Europe | Vol. |  |  |  | the Nibelungen *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **possess** | present | epic *not said here* | a high antiquarian interest |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot interest=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | we | Vol. |  | the shape | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the epics of the son of Fingal | some sort of authenticity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | epic | our oldest poem |  |  |  | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | authenticity |  |  |  |  | nom sort «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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