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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 76

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As history it was originally composed, and as history bound in the chains of metre, that it might not be lost or dissipated passing through the minds of men, and as history it was translated into prose and committed to parchment.

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**Who acts:** prose · **What happens:** compose, bind, not lose, dissipate, pass, translate · **To what, where:** history, chains, minds, parchment, men

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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 (prose), 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:pg8109:4:76
# text = As history it was originally composed, and as history bound in the chains of metre, that it might not be lost or dissipated passing through the minds of men, and as history it was translated into prose and committed to parchment.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	dissipated	dissipate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:agent	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	parchment	parchment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | past · passive |  | history |  |  |  | as history; originally *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as history=Attribute |
| 2 | **bind** | participle |  |  |  | the chains of metre |  | as history | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **lose** | might · passive |  | history |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **dissipate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  | the minds of men |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location |
| 6 | **translate** | past · passive | prose | history |  |  |  | as history | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 7 | **commit** | participle | prose *not said here* |  |  | parchment |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to parchment=Destination |
| 8 | **mind** |  |  | men |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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