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title: But unless the student has read the whole of the Ultonian cycle, he… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: But unless the student has read the whole of the Ultonian cycle, he should be cautious in condemning a departure in my work from any particular version of an event which he may have himself met. Who acts: student, event, my. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Earl
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 62

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But unless the student has read the whole of the Ultonian cycle, he should be cautious in condemning a departure in my work from any particular version of an event which he may have himself met.

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**Who acts:** student, event, my · **What happens:** read, be, condemn, have, meet, work · **To what, where:** student, departure, work

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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 (student, event, my), 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:pg8109:3:62
# text = But unless the student has read the whole of the Ultonian cycle, he should be cautious in condemning a departure in my work from any particular version of an event which he may have himself met.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Ultonian	Ultonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	condemning	condemn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive |  | the student |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | should | student |  |  |  |  | cautious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **condemn** | gerund | student *not said here* | a departure |  | my work |  | from any particular version of a event | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | may | a event | student |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **meet** | participle | student *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **work** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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