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description: But until such an interest is aroused, it is useless to swell the mass of valuable critical matter, which everyone at present is very well content to leave unread. Who acts: it, everyone. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 67

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But until such an interest is aroused, it is useless to swell the mass of valuable critical matter, which everyone at present is very well content to leave unread.

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**Who acts:** it, everyone · **What happens:** arouse, be, swell, leave · **To what, where:** interest, mass, well content

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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 (it, everyone), 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:pg8109:3:67
# text = But until such an interest is aroused, it is useless to swell the mass of valuable critical matter, which everyone at present is very well content to leave unread.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	swell	swell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	critical	critical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	unread	unread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arouse** | present · passive |  | such interest |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swell** | to-infinitive |  | the mass of valuable critical matter |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mass=Extent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | everyone at present | well content |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unread *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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