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description: Can we believe that forestine luxuriance not to have overgrown all highways, that flood of superabundant song not have submerged all landmarks? Who acts: we, superabundant song. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 37

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Can we believe that forestine luxuriance not to have overgrown all highways, that flood of superabundant song not have submerged all landmarks?

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**Who acts:** we, superabundant song · **What happens:** believe, not overgrow, not submerge, flood · **To what, where:** forestine luxuriance, landmarks · **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 (we, superabundant song), 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:pg8109:5:37
# text = Can we believe that forestine luxuriance not to have overgrown all highways, that flood of superabundant song not have submerged all landmarks?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	forestine	forestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	superabundant	superabundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	submerged	submerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **overgrow** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive |  | forestine luxuriance |  |  |  | all highways *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **submerge** | infinitive · perfect | superabundant song *not said here* | all landmarks |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent landmark=Patient |
| 4 | **flood** |  | superabundant song |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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