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title: To all great nations their history presents itself under the aspect… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: To all great nations their history presents itself under the aspect of poetry; a drama exciting pity and terror; an epic with unbroken continuity, and a wide range of thought, when the intellect is satisfied with coherence and unity, and the imagination by extent and diversity. Who acts: history, in
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 69

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To all great nations their history presents itself under the aspect of poetry; a drama exciting pity and terror; an epic with unbroken continuity, and a wide range of thought, when the intellect is satisfied with coherence and unity, and the imagination by extent and diversity.

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**Who acts:** history, intellect, imagination, extent · **What happens:** present, be, diversity, imagine · **To what, where:** history, great nations, aspect

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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 (history, intellect, imagination, extent), 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:pg8109:4:69
# text = To all great nations their history presents itself under the aspect of poetry; a drama exciting pity and terror; an epic with unbroken continuity, and a wide range of thought, when the intellect is satisfied with coherence and unity, and the imagination by extent and diversity.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	unbroken	unbroken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	continuity	continuity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	intellect	intellect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	coherence	coherence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	unity	unity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	diversity	diversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | present | nations's history | history | all great nations | the aspect of poetry and a drama exciting pity and terror |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to nation=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the intellect |  |  |  |  | with coherence and unity; satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **diversity** |  | the imagination by extent |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **imagine** |  | extent |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: by=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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