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title: For it must be remembered, that the bardic literature of Ireland was… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: For it must be remembered, that the bardic literature of Ireland was committed to the custody of guardians whose character we ought not to forget. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its dependency tree 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 45

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For it must be remembered, that the bardic literature of Ireland was committed to the custody of guardians whose character we ought not to forget.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** remember, commit, not forget · **To what, where:** imagination, bardic literature, custody

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg8109:5:45
# text = For it must be remembered, that the bardic literature of Ireland was committed to the custody of guardians whose character we ought not to forget.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	custody	custody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | must · passive |  | imagination |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **commit** | past · passive |  | the bardic literature of Ireland |  | the custody of guardians |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to custody=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | ought | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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