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description: The order adopted should be that which the bards themselves deter mined, any other would be premature, and I think no other will ever take its place. Who acts: any, I, other. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, with its de
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 25

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The order adopted should be that which the bards themselves deter mined, any other would be premature, and I think no other will ever take its place.

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**Who acts:** any, I, other · **What happens:** adopt, bard, mine, be, think, take · **To what, where:** order, bards, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (any, I, other), 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:pg8109:2:25
# text = The order adopted should be that which the bards themselves deter mined, any other would be premature, and I think no other will ever take its place.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	deter	deter	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	mined	mine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	premature	premature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | participle |  | the order *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bard** |  |  | bards *= bard* |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mine** | should · passive |  | the order |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | would | any |  |  |  |  | premature *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | future | no other | order's place |  |  | ever |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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