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title: Hence the orderly sequence of the cyclic literature; hence the stron… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Hence the orderly sequence of the cyclic literature; hence the strong confining banks between which the torrent of song rolls down through those centuries in which the bardic imagination reached its height. Who acts: torrent, bardic imagination. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by S
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 64

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Hence the orderly sequence of the cyclic literature; hence the strong confining banks between which the torrent of song rolls down through those centuries in which the bardic imagination reached its height.

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**Who acts:** torrent, bardic imagination · **What happens:** confine, roll down, reach · **To what, where:** strong confining banks, height, orderly sequence

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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 (torrent, bardic imagination), 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:pg8109:5:64
# text = Hence the orderly sequence of the cyclic literature; hence the strong confining banks between which the torrent of song rolls down through those centuries in which the bardic imagination reached its height.
1	Hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	orderly	orderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sequence	sequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cyclic	cyclic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	confining	confine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roll down** | present | the torrent of song |  |  | the strong confining banks | century |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **reach** | past | the bardic imagination | imagination's height |  |  |  | in that centuries | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=Theme |

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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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