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title: The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to sui… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 16

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The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste.

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**What happens:** refine, suit · **To what, where:** ancient bardic lore, new poetic taste

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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: 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:pg8109:6:16
# text = The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	primaeval	primaeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	refined	refine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refine** | past · passive |  | the ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suit** | to-infinitive |  | the new poetic taste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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