Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 67

But until such an interest is aroused, it is useless to swell the mass of valuable critical matter, which everyone at present is very well content to leave unread.

Who acts: it, everyone · What happens: arouse, be, swell, leave · To what, where: interest, mass, well content

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, everyone), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 useless	cc
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 aroused	mark
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 interest	det:predet
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 interest	det
5	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aroused	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 aroused	aux:pass
7	aroused	arouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 useless	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 aroused	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 useless	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 useless	cop
11	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 swell	mark
13	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 useless	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mass	det
15	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swell	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 matter	case
17	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 matter	amod
18	critical	critical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 matter	amod
19	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mass	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 everyone	punct
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 everyone	det
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 content	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 present	case
24	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 everyone	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 content	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 content	amod
28	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 matter	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 leave	mark
30	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 content	acl
31	unread	unread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leave	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 useless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arouse	present · passive		such interest		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is	present	it		useless property	tree rules
3	swell	to-infinitive		the mass of valuable critical matter		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mass=Extent
4	is a	present	everyone at present	well content		tree rules
5	leave	to-infinitive			unread property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 3, sentence 67