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title: No men living, and no men to live, will ever so exhaust the meaning… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: No men living, and no men to live, will ever so exhaust the meaning of any single tale as to render its publication unnecessary for the study of others. Who acts: men, history. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, with its 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 24

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No men living, and no men to live, will ever so exhaust the meaning of any single tale as to render its publication unnecessary for the study of others.

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**Who acts:** men, history · **What happens:** live, exhaust, render, mean, publish, study · **To what, where:** meaning, publication, single tale, others

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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: who acts (men, history), 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:pg8109:2:24
# text = No men living, and no men to live, will ever so exhaust the meaning of any single tale as to render its publication unnecessary for the study of others.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	exhaust	exhaust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | no men |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | no men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **exhaust** | future |  | the meaning of any single tale |  |  | ever |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus meaning=Experiencer |
| 4 | **render** | to-infinitive |  | history's publication |  |  |  | unnecessary *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent publication=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** |  |  | any single tale |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **publish** |  | history |  |  |  |  |  | nom publication «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **study** |  |  | others |  |  |  |  | nom study «act 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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