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title: Either the absence of architectural knowledge, or the force of conse… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Either the absence of architectural knowledge, or the force of conservatism, or the advent of the Christian missionaries, checked any further development on these lines. Who acts: absence. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 169

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Either the absence of architectural knowledge, or the force of conservatism, or the advent of the Christian missionaries, checked any further development on these lines.

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**Who acts:** absence · **What happens:** check, absent · **To what, where:** further development, lines, architectural knowledge

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (absence), 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:pg8109:10:169
# text = Either the absence of architectural knowledge, or the force of conservatism, or the advent of the Christian missionaries, checked any further development on these lines.
1	Either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc:preconj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	architectural	architectural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	conservatism	conservatism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	advent	advent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past | the absence of architectural knowledge | any further development |  | this lines |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Theme |
| 2 | **absent** |  |  | architectural knowledge |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=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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