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title: I am sure that if the case were put fairly to the Irish landlords an… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: I am sure that if the case were put fairly to the Irish landlords and country gentlemen, they would neither inflict nor permit this outrage upon the antiquities of their country. Who acts: I, cases. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Irela
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 63

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I am sure that if the case were put fairly to the Irish landlords and country gentlemen, they would neither inflict nor permit this outrage upon the antiquities of their country.

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**Who acts:** I, cases · **What happens:** be, put, inflict, permit · **To what, where:** case, outrage, antiquities

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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 (I, cases), 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:pg8109:1:63
# text = I am sure that if the case were put fairly to the Irish landlords and country gentlemen, they would neither inflict nor permit this outrage upon the antiquities of their country.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	landlords	landlord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	inflict	inflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	outrage	outrage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the case |  |  |  | to the Irish landlords and country gentlemen; fairly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **inflict** | would | cases *= case* |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **permit** | infinitive | cases *= case* *not said here* | this outrage |  | the antiquities of cases's country |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent outrage=Theme upon antiquity=Location |

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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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