Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 63

I am sure that if the case were put fairly to the Irish landlords and country gentlemen, they would neither inflict nor permit this outrage upon the antiquities of their country.

Who acts: I, cases · What happens: be, put, inflict, permit · To what, where: case, outrage, antiquities

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., 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 (I, cases), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 put	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 put	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 case	det
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux:pass
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sure	ccomp
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 landlords	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 landlords	det
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 landlords	amod
14	landlords	landlord	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gentlemen	cc
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gentlemen	compound
17	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 landlords	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 inflict	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 inflict	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 inflict	aux
21	neither	neither	ADV	_	22 inflict	advmod
22	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	parataxis
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 permit	cc
24	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 inflict	conj
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 outrage	det
26	outrage	outrage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 permit	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 antiquities	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 antiquities	det
29	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 permit	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 country	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 country	nmod:poss
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 antiquities	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
2	put a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the case		to the Irish landlords and country gentlemen; fairly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	inflict	would	cases = case			neither property	tree rules
4	permit	infinitive	cases = case not said here	this outrage	the antiquities of cases's country		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent outrage=Theme upon antiquity=Location

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 1, sentence 63