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title: MacPherson feared English public opinion, and fearing lied. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: MacPherson feared English public opinion, and fearing lied. Who acts: MacPherson. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 24

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MacPherson feared English public opinion, and fearing lied.

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**Who acts:** MacPherson · **What happens:** fear, lie · **To what, where:** English public opinion

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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 (MacPherson), 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:pg8109:5:24
# text = MacPherson feared English public opinion, and fearing lied.
1	MacPherson	MacPherson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	lied	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | MacPherson | English public opinion |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opinion=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund · passive | MacPherson *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V» |

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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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