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title: This being so, he will conclude that the universal ascription of Ogh… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: This being so, he will conclude that the universal ascription of Ogham, and Ogham only, to the ethnic times, arises solely from the fact that such was the alphabet then employed. Who acts: This, force, universal ascription, such alphabet. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 91

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This being so, he will conclude that the universal ascription of Ogham, and Ogham only, to the ethnic times, arises solely from the fact that such was the alphabet then employed.

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**Who acts:** This, force, universal ascription, such alphabet · **What happens:** be, conclude, arise, employ, ascribe · **To what, where:** fact, such alphabet, Ogham

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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 (This, force, universal ascription, such alphabet), 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:pg8109:5:91
# text = This being so, he will conclude that the universal ascription of Ogham, and Ogham only, to the ethnic times, arises solely from the fact that such was the alphabet then employed.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	conclude	conclude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ascription	ascription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
24	arises	arise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
25	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | gerund | This |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **conclude** | future | force |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **arise** | present | the universal ascription of Ogham and Ogham to the ethnic times | the fact |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fact=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the such alphabet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **employ** | past | the such alphabet | the fact *not said here* |  |  | then |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 6 | **ascribe** |  |  | Ogham and Ogham |  |  |  |  | nom ascription «cognition 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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