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title: Much and careful study, indeed, it requires, if we would compel thes… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Much and careful study, indeed, it requires, if we would compel these ancient epics to yield up their greatness or their beauty, or even their logical coherence and imaginative unity--broken, scattered portions as they all are of that one enormous epic, the bardic history of Ireland. Who acts: Much 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 82

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Much and careful study, indeed, it requires, if we would compel these ancient epics to yield up their greatness or their beauty, or even their logical coherence and imaginative unity--broken, scattered portions as they all are of that one enormous epic, the bardic history of Ireland.

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**Who acts:** Much study, we, compositions · **What happens:** require, compel, yield up, break, be, cohere · **To what, where:** ancient epics, greatness, scattered portions

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Much study, we, compositions), 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:pg8109:4:82
# text = Much and careful study, indeed, it requires, if we would compel these ancient epics to yield up their greatness or their beauty, or even their logical coherence and imaginative unity--broken, scattered portions as they all are of that one enormous epic, the bardic history of Ireland.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	compel	compel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	epics	epic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	logical	logical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	coherence	coherence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	unity	unity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	39	amod	_	_
39	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	nsubj	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nsubj	_	_
47	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
48	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | Much study |  |  |  |  | study *nsubj*; indeed *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **compel** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | we | this ancient epics |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent epic=Patient |
| 3 | **yield up** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | compositions's greatness or compositions's beauty or compositions's logical coherence and imaginative unity |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent greatness=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  | scattered portions |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | compositions *= composition* |  |  |  |  | of the enormous epic bardic history; of Ireland; that *nsubj*; one *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **cohere** |  | compositions *= composition* |  |  |  |  |  | nom coherence «state 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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