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title: Should there be any bardic passage in which Ogham inscriptions are a… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Should there be any bardic passage in which Ogham inscriptions are alluded to as if an obscure form of writing, the natural explanation is, that this kind of writing was passing or had passed into desuetude at the time that particular passage was composed; but I have never met with any such. Who act
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 7

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Should there be any bardic passage in which Ogham inscriptions are alluded to as if an obscure form of writing, the natural explanation is, that this kind of writing was passing or had passed into desuetude at the time that particular passage was composed; but I have never met with any such.

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**Who acts:** bardic passage, natural explanation, writing, I · **What happens:** be, allude, pass, compose, not meet, form · **To what, where:** Ogham inscriptions, bardic passage, kind, desuetude, particular passage, any

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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 (bardic passage, natural explanation, writing, I), 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:pg8109:6:7
# text = Should there be any bardic passage in which Ogham inscriptions are alluded to as if an obscure form of writing, the natural explanation is, that this kind of writing was passing or had passed into desuetude at the time that particular passage was composed; but I have never met with any such.
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	alluded	allude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	xcomp	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	obscure	obscure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	desuetude	desuetude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obj	_	_
43	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
52	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	obj	_	_
55	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | should | any bardic passage and this kind |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **allude** | present · passive |  | Ogham inscriptions |  | any bardic passage and this kind |  | as a obscure form of writing | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the natural explanation | this kind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | past · progressive | writing | this kind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kind=Trajectory |
| 5 | **pass** | past · perfect | writing *not said here* |  |  | desuetude | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into desuetude=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **compose** | past · passive |  | particular passage |  |  | the time |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **meet** | present · perfect | I | any |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | writing |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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