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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 38

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What the present age demands upon the subject of antique Irish history--an exact and scientific treatment of the facts supplied by our native authorities--will be demanded for ever.

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**What happens:** supply, demand, treat · **To what, where:** facts

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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:pg8109:2:38
# text = What the present age demands upon the subject of antique Irish history--an exact and scientific treatment of the facts supplied by our native authorities--will be demanded for ever.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	antique	antique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	demanded	demand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | participle |  | the facts *not said here* |  |  |  | our native authorities *obl:agent* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  | What  the present age demands upon the subject of antique Irish history and a exact treatment of the facts *obl* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |
| 3 | **treat** |  |  | the facts |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «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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