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title: Again: Fergus, the bard, inciting Oscar to his last battle--in that… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Again: Fergus, the bard, inciting Oscar to his last battle--in that poem called the Rosc Catha of Oscar:-- Who acts: bard, Oscar. 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 cla
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 96

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Again: Fergus, the bard, inciting Oscar to his last battle--in that poem called the Rosc Catha of Oscar:--

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**Who acts:** bard, Oscar · **What happens:** incite, call, battle · **To what, where:** Oscar, poem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bard, Oscar), 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:pg8109:4:96
# text = Again: Fergus, the bard, inciting Oscar to his last battle--in that poem called the Rosc Catha of Oscar:--
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	inciting	incite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Rosc	Rosc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Catha	Catha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incite** | gerund | the bard *not said here* | Oscar |  |  |  | to Oscar's last battle | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition oscar=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | that poem *not said here* |  |  |  | the Rosc Catha of Oscar *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **battle** |  | Oscar |  |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=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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