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title: The chaos of the Nibelungen is not found here, nor the confusion of… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The chaos of the Nibelungen is not found here, nor the confusion of the Scotch ballads blending all the ages into one. Who acts: confusion. 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
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 41

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The chaos of the Nibelungen is not found here, nor the confusion of the Scotch ballads blending all the ages into one.

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**Who acts:** confusion · **What happens:** not find, blend, confuse · **To what, where:** chaos, ages, Scotch ballads

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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 (confusion), 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:pg8109:5:41
# text = The chaos of the Nibelungen is not found here, nor the confusion of the Scotch ballads blending all the ages into one.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chaos	chaos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	blending	blend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | present · passive |  | the chaos of the Nibelungen |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **blend** | gerund | the confusion of the Scotch ballads | all ages |  |  |  | into one | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent age=Patient into one=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **confuse** |  |  | the Scotch ballads |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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