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title: Every history of ancient Ireland will consist of more or less intell… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Every history of ancient Ireland will consist of more or less intelligent comments upon and theories formed in connection with this great series--theories which, in general, will only be formed in order to be destroyed. Who acts: history, theories. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» b
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 37

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Every history of ancient Ireland will consist of more or less intelligent comments upon and theories formed in connection with this great series--theories which, in general, will only be formed in order to be destroyed.

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**Who acts:** history, theories · **What happens:** consist, form, destroy · **To what, where:** connection

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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 (history, theories), 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:pg8109:2:37
# text = Every history of ancient Ireland will consist of more or less intelligent comments upon and theories formed in connection with this great series--theories which, in general, will only be formed in order to be destroyed.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	consist	consist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
13	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	theories	theory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	theories	theory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	39	mark	_	_
36	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	fixed	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | future | every history of ancient Ireland |  |  |  |  | of more comments | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | past | theories |  |  | connection with this great series  connection with this great series  connection and theories and theories |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in connection=Location |
| 3 | **form** | future · passive | every history of ancient Ireland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **destroy** | to-infinitive · passive | every history of ancient Ireland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |

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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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