---
title: To the casual reader of the bardic literature the preservation of an… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: To the casual reader of the bardic literature the preservation of an ordered historical sequence, amidst that riotous wealth of imaginative energy, may appear an impossibility. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/5/36/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/) / [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/5/) / 36

# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 36

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To the casual reader of the bardic literature the preservation of an ordered historical sequence, amidst that riotous wealth of imaginative energy, may appear an impossibility.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** appear, preserve · **To what, where:** impossibility, ordered historical sequence

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8109:5:36
# text = To the casual reader of the bardic literature the preservation of an ordered historical sequence, amidst that riotous wealth of imaginative energy, may appear an impossibility.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	casual	casual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ordered	ordered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sequence	sequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	riotous	riotous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	appear	appear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | may |  | a impossibility |  |  |  | to the casual reader of the bardic literature | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location impossibility=Theme |
| 2 | **preserve** |  |  | a ordered historical sequence and that riotous wealth of imaginative energy |  |  |  |  | nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/5/35/)
- next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/5/37/)
- ↑ back to [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/5/)