Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 37

Every history of ancient Ireland will consist of more or less intelligent comments upon and theories formed in connection with this great series--theories which, in general, will only be formed in order to be destroyed.

Who acts: history, theories · What happens: consist, form, destroy · To what, where: connection

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 (history, theories), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 history	det
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consist	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ireland	case
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ireland	amod
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 history	nmod
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 consist	aux
7	consist	consist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 comments	case
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 comments	amod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 intelligent	cc
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 intelligent	advmod
12	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 more	conj
13	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 consist	obl
14	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	17 formed	mark
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 formed	cc
16	theories	theory	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 formed	nsubj
17	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 consist	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 connection	case
19	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 formed	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 series	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 series	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 series	amod
23	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 connection	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 theories	punct
25	theories	theory	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 series	conj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 series	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 which	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 general	case
29	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 which	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 formed	punct
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 formed	aux
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 formed	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 formed	aux:pass
34	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 consist	advcl
35	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 destroyed	mark
36	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 in	fixed
37	to	to	PART	_	39 destroyed	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 destroyed	aux:pass
39	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 formed	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 consist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	consist	future	every history of ancient Ireland		of more comments	tree rules
2	form	past	theories	connection with this great series connection with this great series connection and theories and theories		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in connection=Location
3	form	future · passive	every history of ancient Ireland not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
4	destroy	to-infinitive · passive	every history of ancient Ireland not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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 37

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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 37