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title: It was, perhaps, invented, and certainly became fashionable on this… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: It was, perhaps, invented, and certainly became fashionable on this account, straight strokes being more easily cut in stone than rounded or uncial characters. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its dependency tree a
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 84

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It was, perhaps, invented, and certainly became fashionable on this account, straight strokes being more easily cut in stone than rounded or uncial characters.

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**What happens:** invent, become, cut, round · **To what, where:** use, account, straight strokes, stone

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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: 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:pg8109:5:84
# text = It was, perhaps, invented, and certainly became fashionable on this account, straight strokes being more easily cut in stone than rounded or uncial characters.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	uncial	uncial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · passive |  | use |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  | this account |  | certainly, fashionable *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** | gerund · passive |  | straight strokes |  | stone |  | than rounded characters; easily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **round** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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