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title: In the genuine bardic times, no such vague euphuism would have been… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: In the genuine bardic times, no such vague euphuism would have been tolerated as that of Homer on this subject. 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 18

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In the genuine bardic times, no such vague euphuism would have been tolerated as that of Homer on this subject.

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**What happens:** tolerate · **To what, where:** such vague euphuism, subject

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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:pg8109:6:18
# text = In the genuine bardic times, no such vague euphuism would have been tolerated as that of Homer on this subject.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	euphuism	euphuism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tolerate** | would · perfect · passive |  | no such vague euphuism |  | this subject | time | as that of Homer | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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