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title: Thus there was an educated body of public opinion entrusted with the… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus there was an educated body of public opinion entrusted with the preservation of the literature and history of the country, and capable of repressing the aberrations of individuals. Who acts: individuals. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literat
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 50

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Thus there was an educated body of public opinion entrusted with the preservation of the literature and history of the country, and capable of repressing the aberrations of individuals.

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**Who acts:** individuals · **What happens:** entrust, be, repress, preserve, aberrate · **To what, where:** public opinion, aberrations, literature

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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 (individuals), 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:pg8109:5:50
# text = Thus there was an educated body of public opinion entrusted with the preservation of the literature and history of the country, and capable of repressing the aberrations of individuals.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	educated	educated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	repressing	repress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	aberrations	aberration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entrust** | participle |  | public opinion *not said here* |  |  |  | with the preservation of the literature and history of the country | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with preservation=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **repress** | gerund |  | the aberrations of individuals |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aberration=Patient |
| 4 | **preserve** |  |  | the literature and history of the country |  |  |  |  | nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **aberrate** |  | individuals |  |  |  |  |  | nom aberration «state 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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