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title: The bardic literature, profoundly poetic though it be, in the eyes o… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The bardic literature, profoundly poetic though it be, in the eyes of our ancestors was history, and never was anything else. Who acts: bardic literature. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, with its dependency tree and th
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 75

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The bardic literature, profoundly poetic though it be, in the eyes of our ancestors was history, and never was anything else.

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**Who acts:** bardic literature · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** history, anything

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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:pg8109:4:75
# text = The bardic literature, profoundly poetic though it be, in the eyes of our ancestors was history, and never was anything else.
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	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	profoundly	profoundly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	conj	_	_
24	else	else	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the bardic literature and the eyes of our ancestors | history |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the bardic literature and the eyes of our ancestors *not said here* | anything |  |  |  | else *property* | tree rules |

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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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