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title: The conquest has not more constituted the English Parliament guardia… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The conquest has not more constituted the English Parliament guardian and trustee of Ireland, for purposes of legislation and government, than it has vested the welfare and fame of our literature and antiquities in the hands of English scholarship. Who acts: legislation. A sentence of «Early Bardic 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 45

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The conquest has not more constituted the English Parliament guardian and trustee of Ireland, for purposes of legislation and government, than it has vested the welfare and fame of our literature and antiquities in the hands of English scholarship.

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**Who acts:** legislation · **What happens:** not constitute, vest, purpose · **To what, where:** conquest, hands

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legislation), 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:pg8109:4:45
# text = The conquest has not more constituted the English Parliament guardian and trustee of Ireland, for purposes of legislation and government, than it has vested the welfare and fame of our literature and antiquities in the hands of English scholarship.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	constituted	constitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	trustee	trustee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	vested	vest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	scholarship	scholarship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **constitute** | present · perfect · passive |  | the conquest |  |  |  | for purposes of legislation and government; the English Parliament guardian and trustee of Ireland *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vest** | present · perfect · passive |  | conquest |  | the hands of English scholarship |  | the welfare and fame of our literature and antiquities *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | legislation and government |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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