Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 50

Thus there was an educated body of public opinion entrusted with the preservation of the literature and history of the country, and capable of repressing the aberrations of individuals.

Who acts: individuals · What happens: entrust, be, repress, preserve, aberrate · To what, where: public opinion, aberrations, literature

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (individuals), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 capable	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 body	det
5	educated	educated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 opinion	case
8	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 opinion	amod
9	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 body	nmod
10	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 opinion	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 preservation	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 preservation	det
13	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entrusted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 literature	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 literature	det
16	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 preservation	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 history	cc
18	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 literature	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 country	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 history	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 capable	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 capable	cc
24	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 repressing	mark
26	repressing	repress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 capable	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 aberrations	det
28	aberrations	aberration	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 repressing	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 individuals	case
30	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 aberrations	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 capable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entrust	participle		public opinion not said here	with the preservation of the literature and history of the country	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with preservation=Theme
2	is	past			capable property	tree rules
3	repress	gerund		the aberrations of individuals		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aberration=Patient
4	preserve			the literature and history of the country		nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient
5	aberrate		individuals			nom aberration «state 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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🌲 Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 50

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Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 50