Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 25

The order adopted should be that which the bards themselves deter mined, any other would be premature, and I think no other will ever take its place.

Who acts: any, I, other · What happens: adopt, bard, mine, be, think, take · To what, where: order, bards, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (any, I, other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 order	det
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mined	nsubj:pass
3	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 order	acl
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mined	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 mined	aux:pass
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 mined	mark
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bards	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bards	det
9	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mined	nsubj:pass
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 bards	nmod:unmarked
11	deter	deter	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mined	aux:pass
12	mined	mine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 premature	punct
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 premature	nsubj
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 any	fixed
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 premature	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 premature	cop
18	premature	premature	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mined	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 think	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
22	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mined	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 take	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 take	advmod
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	ccomp
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 place	nmod:poss
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 mined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	adopt	participle		the order not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bard			bards = bard		which nsubj	tree rules
3	mine	should · passive		the order			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	would	any			premature property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	take	future	no other	order's place	ever		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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.

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 25