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title: It was the same, the bard simply states, that was once a yew tree, f… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the same, the bard simply states, that was once a yew tree, flourishing fifty summers in the woods of Ioroway. Who acts: youth, bard, that, yew tree. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 11

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It was the same, the bard simply states, that was once a yew tree, flourishing fifty summers in the woods of Ioroway.

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**Who acts:** youth, bard, that, yew tree · **What happens:** be, state, flourish · **To what, where:** yew tree, woods · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, bard, that, yew tree), 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:pg8109:5:11
# text = It was the same, the bard simply states, that was once a yew tree, flourishing fifty summers in the woods of Ioroway.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	states	state	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	yew	yew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	flourishing	flourish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ioroway	Ioroway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | youth |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **state** *speech: other* | present | the bard |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | a yew tree |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **flourish** | gerund | a yew tree *not said here* |  |  | the woods of Ioroway | summer |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |

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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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