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title: Rome was a seedling shaken from some old perished civilisation. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Rome was a seedling shaken from some old perished civilisation. Who acts: Rome. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6, sentence 33

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Rome was a seedling shaken from some old perished civilisation.

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**Who acts:** Rome · **What happens:** be, shake, perish · **To what, where:** seedling

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rome), 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:pg8109:6:33
# text = Rome was a seedling shaken from some old perished civilisation.
1	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seedling	seedling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rome | a seedling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | participle |  | a seedling *not said here* |  |  |  | from old perished civilisation | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from civilisation=Stimulus |
| 3 | **perish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP 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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