Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 81

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 · What happens: be, stand, prove, form, preserve

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 form	nmod:poss
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anapaestic	nsubj
3	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	2 form	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anapaestic	cop
5	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	6 anapaestic	advmod
6	anapaestic	anapaestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 anapaestic	punct
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 O'G	punct
9	S.	S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 O'G	compound
10	O'G	O'G	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 verse	compound
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 O'G	punct
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 O'G	punct
13	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 would	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 would	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 anapaestic	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 stood	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 anapaestic	conj
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fact	punct
23	both	both	CCONJ	_	26 fact	cc:preconj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 fact	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fact	det
26	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 composition	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 composition	nmod:poss
29	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fact	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fact	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fact	det
32	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 composition	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 preservation	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 preservation	nmod:poss
35	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fact	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 prove	punct
37	fully	fully	ADV	_	38 prove	advmod
38	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stood	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 anapaestic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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

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.

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 81