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title: They manage these things rather better in France, _vide passim_ "La… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: They manage these things rather better in France, _vide passim_ "La Revue Celtique." Who acts: characters. 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 58

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They manage these things rather better in France, \_vide passim\_ "La Revue Celtique."

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**Who acts:** characters · **What happens:** manage · **To what, where:** things

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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 (characters), 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:pg8109:4:58
# text = They manage these things rather better in France, _vide passim_ "La Revue Celtique."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	vide	vide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
12	passim	passim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Revue	Revue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	Celtique	Celtique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | present | characters *= character* | this things |  |  |  | La Celtique  vide *obl*; good *property* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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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