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title: The bardic literature of Erin stands alone, as distinctively and gen… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The bardic literature of Erin stands alone, as distinctively and genuinely Irish as the race itself, or the natural aspects of the island. Who acts: bardic literature. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, with its dependenc
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 63

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The bardic literature of Erin stands alone, as distinctively and genuinely Irish as the race itself, or the natural aspects of the island.

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**Who acts:** bardic literature · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** natural aspects

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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 (bardic literature), 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:pg8109:4:63
# text = The bardic literature of Erin stands alone, as distinctively and genuinely Irish as the race itself, or the natural aspects of the island.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	distinctively	distinctively	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	aspects	aspect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the bardic literature of Erin | the natural aspects of the island |  |  |  | alone, distinctively *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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