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title: He will find in all the epics no trace of original invention, but al… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: He will find in all the epics no trace of original invention, but always a studied and conscientious following of authority. Who acts: force. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 90

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He will find in all the epics no trace of original invention, but always a studied and conscientious following of authority.

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**Who acts:** force · **What happens:** find, study, follow · **To what, where:** epics

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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: who acts (force), 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:pg8109:5:90
# text = He will find in all the epics no trace of original invention, but always a studied and conscientious following of authority.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	epics	epic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	conscientious	conscientious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future | force |  |  | all epics |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **study** | participle | force *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, conscientious *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of authority | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of authority=Trajectory |

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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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