Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 45
The conquest has not more constituted the English Parliament guardian and trustee of Ireland, for purposes of legislation and government, than it has vested the welfare and fame of our literature and antiquities in the hands of English scholarship.
Who acts: legislation · What happens: not constitute, vest, purpose · To what, where: conquest, hands
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legislation), 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 conquest | det |
| 2 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 constituted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 constituted | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 constituted | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 constituted | advmod |
| 6 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guardian | det |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 guardian | amod |
| 9 | Parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guardian | compound |
| 10 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 constituted | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trustee | cc |
| 12 | trustee | trustee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guardian | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ireland | case |
| 14 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 trustee | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 purposes | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 purposes | case |
| 17 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 constituted | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 legislation | case |
| 19 | legislation | legislation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 purposes | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 government | cc |
| 21 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 legislation | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 vested | punct |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 vested | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 vested | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 vested | aux |
| 26 | vested | vest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 constituted | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 welfare | det |
| 28 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 vested | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fame | cc |
| 30 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 welfare | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 literature | case |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 literature | nmod:poss |
| 33 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fame | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 antiquities | cc |
| 35 | antiquities | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 literature | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hands | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hands | det |
| 38 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 vested | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 scholarship | case |
| 40 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 scholarship | amod |
| 41 | scholarship | scholarship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hands | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 constituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not constitute | present · perfect · passive | the conquest | for purposes of legislation and government; the English Parliament guardian and trustee of Ireland obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vest | present · perfect · passive | conquest | the hands of English scholarship | the welfare and fame of our literature and antiquities obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | purpose | legislation and government | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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