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description: Accordingly, no tale is without its defects as poetry, possessing therefore necessarily, a corresponding value as history. Who acts: tale. 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 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 77

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Accordingly, no tale is without its defects as poetry, possessing therefore necessarily, a corresponding value as history.

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**Who acts:** tale · **What happens:** be, possess, correspond

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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 (tale), 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:pg8109:4:77
# text = Accordingly, no tale is without its defects as poetry, possessing therefore necessarily, a corresponding value as history.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	defects	defect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	possessing	possess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no tale |  |  |  |  | without history's defects and a corresponding value as history; as poetry; history *nmod:poss*; a corresponding value as history *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | gerund | no tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessarily *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **correspond** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «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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