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title: It belongs to that corrupted civilisation which uses against Christi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Me
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 125

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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.

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:1:129
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	corrupted	corrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
12	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	24	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
21	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	owes	owe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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