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title: Its form throughout is distinctly anapaestic.--S. O'G.] verse, would… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Its form throughout is distinctly anapaestic.--S. O'G.] verse, would, even though it stood alone, both by the fact of its composition and the fact of its preservation, fully prove. Who acts: form. 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 4, sentence 81

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Its form throughout is distinctly anapaestic.--S. O'G.\] verse, would, even though it stood alone, both by the fact of its composition and the fact of its preservation, fully prove.

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**Who acts:** form · **What happens:** be, stand, prove, form, preserve

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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 (form), 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:pg8109:4:81
# text = Its form throughout is distinctly anapaestic.--S. O'G.] verse, would, even though it stood alone, both by the fact of its composition and the fact of its preservation, fully prove.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	2	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	anapaestic	anapaestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	O'G	O'G	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
13	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc:preconj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | form's form |  |  |  |  | anapaestic, distinctly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | form |  |  |  |  | by the fact of form's composition and the fact of form's preservation; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fact=Location |
| 3 | **prove** | infinitive | form *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **form** |  | form |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **preserve** |  | form |  |  |  |  |  | nom preservation «act transitive»: poss=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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