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title: One elm tree is as good as another, and the thinned wood, by proper… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: One elm tree is as good as another, and the thinned wood, by proper treatment, will be as dense as ever; but the ancient mound, once carted away, can never be replaced any more. Who acts: One elm tree, thinned wood. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 66

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One elm tree is as good as another, and the thinned wood, by proper treatment, will be as dense as ever; but the ancient mound, once carted away, can never be replaced any more.

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**Who acts:** One elm tree, thinned wood · **What happens:** be, thin, cart away, not replace · **To what, where:** ancient mound

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One elm tree, thinned wood), 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:pg8109:1:66
# text = One elm tree is as good as another, and the thinned wood, by proper treatment, will be as dense as ever; but the ancient mound, once carted away, can never be replaced any more.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	elm	elm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	thinned	thin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	advmod	_	_
32	carted	cart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
39	any	any	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | One elm tree |  |  |  |  | as another; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **thin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | future | the thinned wood and proper treatment |  |  |  |  | dense *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cart away** | participle |  | the ancient mound *not said here* |  |  |  | away, once *property* | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **replace** | can · passive |  | the ancient mound |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |

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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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