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title: For the last century, intellects of the highest attainments, trained… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: For the last century, intellects of the highest attainments, trained and educated to the last degree, have been vainly endeavouring to solve a similar question in the far less copious and less varied heroic literature of Greece. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 14

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For the last century, intellects of the highest attainments, trained and educated to the last degree, have been vainly endeavouring to solve a similar question in the far less copious and less varied heroic literature of Greece.

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**What happens:** train, educate, endeavour, solve · **To what, where:** highest attainments, similar question, copious heroic literature

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. 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:pg8109:2:14
# text = For the last century, intellects of the highest attainments, trained and educated to the last degree, have been vainly endeavouring to solve a similar question in the far less copious and less varied heroic literature of Greece.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	intellects	intellect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	attainments	attainment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	educated	educate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux	_	_
22	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	endeavouring	endeavour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
32	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	copious	copious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
37	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | participle |  | the highest attainments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **educate** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the last degree | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **endeavour** | present · perfect · progressive |  |  |  |  | century | vainly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **solve** | to-infinitive |  | a similar question |  | the copious heroic literature of Greece |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic |

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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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