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title: I will also request the reader, when the two volumes may diverge in… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: I will also request the reader, when the two volumes may diverge in tone or statement, to attach greater importance to the second, as the result of wider and more careful reading and more matured reflection. Who acts: I, two volumes. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Gr
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 74

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I will also request the reader, when the two volumes may diverge in tone or statement, to attach greater importance to the second, as the result of wider and more careful reading and more matured reflection.

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**Who acts:** I, two volumes · **What happens:** request, diverge, attach, mature · **To what, where:** reader, tone, greater importance

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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 (I, two volumes), 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:pg8109:3:74
# text = I will also request the reader, when the two volumes may diverge in tone or statement, to attach greater importance to the second, as the result of wider and more careful reading and more matured reflection.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	request	request	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	diverge	diverge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	attach	attach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
35	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	matured	mature	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **request** | future | I | the reader |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient |
| 2 | **diverge** | may | the two volumes |  |  | tone or statement |  |  | vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **attach** | to-infinitive | the two volumes *not said here* | greater importance |  |  |  | to the second; the result  wider reading and matured reflection *parataxis* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent importance=Patient to second=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **mature** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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