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title: Of poetry, as distinguised from metrical composition, these ancient… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Of poetry, as distinguised from metrical composition, these ancient bards knew little. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 74

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Of poetry, as distinguised from metrical composition, these ancient bards knew little.

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**What happens:** distinguis, know · **To what, where:** poetry, metrical composition, little

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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: 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:pg8109:4:74
# text = Of poetry, as distinguised from metrical composition, these ancient bards knew little.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	distinguised	distinguis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distinguis** | participle |  | poetry *not said here* |  | metrical composition and this ancient bards |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past |  | little |  |  |  | of poetry | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |

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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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