--- title: There were still found generous minds to shelter and shield the old… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics description: There were still found generous minds to shelter and shield the old tales and ballads, to feel the nobleness of that life of which they were the outcome, and to resolve that the soil of Ireland should not, so far as they had the power to prevent it, be denuded of its raiment of history and historic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/) / [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/) / 54 # Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 54 There were still found generous minds to shelter and shield the old tales and ballads, to feel the nobleness of that life of which they were the outcome, and to resolve that the soil of Ireland should not, so far as they had the power to prevent it, be denuded of its raiment of history and historic romance, or reduced again to primeval nakedness. **Who acts:** minds · **What happens:** find, shelter, shield, feel, be, resolve · **To what, where:** generous minds, old tales, nobleness, outcome, power, primeval nakedness · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (minds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8109:1:54 # text = There were still found generous minds to shelter and shield the old tales and ballads, to feel the nobleness of that life of which they were the outcome, and to resolve that the soil of Ireland should not, so far as they had the power to prevent it, be denuded of its raiment of history and historic romance, or reduced again to primeval nakedness. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 generous generous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 shelter shelter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 shield shield VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 ballads ballad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 nobleness nobleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obl _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 outcome outcome NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 resolve resolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 46 advmod _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 prevent prevent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 aux:pass _ _ 54 denuded denude VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 advcl _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 raiment raiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 historic historic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 romance romance NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 or or CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 reduced reduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 conj _ _ 66 again again ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 67 to to ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 primeval primeval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 nakedness nakedness NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · passive | | generous minds | | there | still | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: mind=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **shelter** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shield** | infinitive | | the old tales and ballads | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | | the nobleness of that life | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobleness=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | minds *= mind* | the outcome | | | | of that life | tree rules | | 6 | **resolve** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | past | minds *= mind* | the power | | | | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 8 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | minds *= mind* *not said here* | power | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | | 9 | **denude** | infinitive · passive | minds *= mind* *not said here* | | | | | of soil's raiment of history and historic romance | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: of raiment=Theme | | 10 | **reduce** | participle | minds *= mind* *not said here* | | | | again | to primeval nakedness *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer to nakedness=Goal | | 11 | **soil** | | | Ireland | | | | | nom soil «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/55/) - ↑ back to [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/1/)