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title: Foreign conquest, or less intrinsic force of imagination, and pious… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Foreign conquest, or less intrinsic force of imagination, and pious sentiment have suffered them to fall into oblivion; but in Ireland they have been all preserved in their original fulness and vigour, hardly a hue has faded, hardly a minute circumstance or articulation been suffered to decay. Who a
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 50

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Foreign conquest, or less intrinsic force of imagination, and pious sentiment have suffered them to fall into oblivion; but in Ireland they have been all preserved in their original fulness and vigour, hardly a hue has faded, hardly a minute circumstance or articulation been suffered to decay.

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**Who acts:** pious sentiment, Foreign conquest, hue · **What happens:** suffer, fall, preserve, fade, decay · **To what, where:** proof, oblivion, sentiments, Ireland, minute circumstance, articulation

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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 (pious sentiment, Foreign conquest, hue), 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:pg8109:1:50
# text = Foreign conquest, or less intrinsic force of imagination, and pious sentiment have suffered them to fall into oblivion; but in Ireland they have been all preserved in their original fulness and vigour, hardly a hue has faded, hardly a minute circumstance or articulation been suffered to decay.
1	Foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	intrinsic	intrinsic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	oblivion	oblivion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fulness	fulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	articulation	articulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	decay	decay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | present · perfect | pious sentiment | proof |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive | pious sentiment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into oblivion *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into oblivion=Result |
| 3 | **preserve** | present · perfect · passive | Foreign conquest *not said here* | sentiments *= sentiment* |  | Ireland |  | in sentiments's original fulness and vigour; all *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **fade** | present · perfect | a hue | a minute circumstance |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fulness=Patient |
| 5 | **suffer** | participle · passive |  | articulation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **decay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «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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