The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 125

It belongs to that corrupted civilisation which uses against Christianity those intellectual and imaginative gifts, as well as that social and scientific progress, which it owes to Christianity alone.

Who acts: literature, corrupted civilisation, social progress · What happens: belong, corrupt, use, owe · To what, where: intellectual gifts, Christianity

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (literature, corrupted civilisation, social progress), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 belongs	nsubj
2	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 civilisation	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 civilisation	det
5	corrupted	corrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 civilisation	amod
6	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belongs	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 uses	nsubj
8	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 civilisation	acl:relcl
9	against	against	ADP	_	10 Christianity	case
10	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 uses	obl
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 gifts	det
12	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gifts	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 imaginative	cc
14	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 intellectual	conj
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 uses	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 progress	punct
17	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	24 progress	cc
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 as	fixed
19	as	as	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 progress	det
21	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 progress	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scientific	cc
23	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 social	conj
24	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gifts	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 owes	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 owes	nsubj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 owes	nsubj
28	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 progress	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Christianity	case
30	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 owes	obl
31	alone	alone	ADV	_	28 owes	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 belongs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	belong	present	literature			to that corrupted civilisation	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	corrupt	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	use	present	that corrupted civilisation	that intellectual gifts that social progress		against Christianity	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient
4	owe	present	that social progress		Christianity	literature nsubj; alone property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to christianity=Goal

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: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 125

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 125