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title: The use of Ogham was partially practised in the Christian period for… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The use of Ogham was partially practised in the Christian period for sepultural purposes, being venerable and sacred from time. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 5, sentence 86

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The use of Ogham was partially practised in the Christian period for sepultural purposes, being venerable and sacred from time.

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**What happens:** practise, be, use · **To what, where:** use, Christian period, Ogham

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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:pg8109:5:86
# text = The use of Ogham was partially practised in the Christian period for sepultural purposes, being venerable and sacred from time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	sepultural	sepultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | past · passive |  | the use of Ogham |  | the Christian period |  | for sepultural purposes; partially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time | venerable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | Ogham |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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