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title: The prose tale is founded upon a metrical original, and composed in… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The prose tale is founded upon a metrical original, and composed in the meretricious style then in fashion, while the old metrical excerpts are pure and simple. Who acts: old metrical excerpts. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 21

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The prose tale is founded upon a metrical original, and composed in the meretricious style then in fashion, while the old metrical excerpts are pure and simple.

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**Who acts:** old metrical excerpts · **What happens:** found, compose, be · **To what, where:** prose tale, meretricious style

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old metrical excerpts), 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:pg8109:3:21
# text = The prose tale is founded upon a metrical original, and composed in the meretricious style then in fashion, while the old metrical excerpts are pure and simple.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	meretricious	meretricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	excerpts	excerpt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | present · passive |  | the prose tale |  |  |  | upon a metrical original | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **compose** | participle |  |  |  | the meretricious style |  | in fashion | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the old metrical excerpts |  |  |  |  | pure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the old metrical excerpts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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