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description: Without pausing to enquire into the reasonableness of the date, it will suffice now to state that at this point the bardic history of Ireland cleaves asunder into two great divisions--the mythological or divine on the one hand, and the historical or heroic-historical on the other. Who acts: date, ba
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 12

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Without pausing to enquire into the reasonableness of the date, it will suffice now to state that at this point the bardic history of Ireland cleaves asunder into two great divisions--the mythological or divine on the one hand, and the historical or heroic-historical on the other.

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**Who acts:** date, bardic history · **What happens:** pause, enquire, suffice, state, cleave · **To what, where:** reasonableness, asunder, point

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (date, bardic history), 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:pg8109:6:12
# text = Without pausing to enquire into the reasonableness of the date, it will suffice now to state that at this point the bardic history of Ireland cleaves asunder into two great divisions--the mythological or divine on the one hand, and the historical or heroic-historical on the other.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	enquire	enquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reasonableness	reasonableness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	suffice	suffice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	state	state	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	cleaves	cleave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
28	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	divisions	division	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
45	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **pause** | gerund | date *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | date *not said here* |  |  | the reasonableness of the date |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suffice** | future | date |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **state** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | date *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cleave** | present | the bardic history of Ireland | asunder |  | this point |  | into two great divisions *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient into division=Result |

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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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