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title: The minuteness, accuracy, extent, and verisimilitude of the literatu… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The minuteness, accuracy, extent, and verisimilitude of the literature, chronicles, pedigrees, &c., relating to this period, will cause the student to wonder more and more as he examines and collates, seeing the marvellous self-consistency and consentaneity of such a mass of varied recorded matter. 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 51

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The minuteness, accuracy, extent, and verisimilitude of the literature, chronicles, pedigrees, &c., relating to this period, will cause the student to wonder more and more as he examines and collates, seeing the marvellous self-consistency and consentaneity of such a mass of varied recorded matter.

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**Who acts:** minuteness, student, period · **What happens:** relate, cause, wonder, examine, collate, see · **To what, where:** student, marvellous self consistency

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minuteness, student, period), 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:pg8109:3:51
# text = The minuteness, accuracy, extent, and verisimilitude of the literature, chronicles, pedigrees, &c., relating to this period, will cause the student to wonder more and more as he examines and collates, seeing the marvellous self-consistency and consentaneity of such a mass of varied recorded matter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	minuteness	minuteness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	verisimilitude	verisimilitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pedigrees	pedigree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	relating	relate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	conj	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	examines	examine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	collates	collate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
44	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	consistency	consistency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	consentaneity	consentaneity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	52	det:predet	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | gerund | the minuteness and accuracy and extent and verisimilitude of the literature and chronicles and pedigrees & c. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this period | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to period=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | future | the minuteness and accuracy and extent and verisimilitude of the literature and chronicles and pedigrees & c. | the student |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the student *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **examine** | present | period |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **collate** | present | period *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **see** | gerund | period *not said here* | the marvellous self consistency of such mass of varied recorded matter and consentaneity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consistency=Stimulus |
| 7 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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