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title: Even in the case of a hero so surrounded with historic light as Cucu… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Even in the case of a hero so surrounded with historic light as Cuculain we find a halo, as of godhood, often settling around him. Who acts: historic light, we, godhood. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependen
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 103

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Even in the case of a hero so surrounded with historic light as Cuculain we find a halo, as of godhood, often settling around him.

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**Who acts:** historic light, we, godhood · **What happens:** surround, find, settle · **To what, where:** case, halo

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (historic light, we, godhood), 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:pg8109:10:103
# text = Even in the case of a hero so surrounded with historic light as Cuculain we find a halo, as of godhood, often settling around him.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cuculain	Cuculain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	halo	halo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	godhood	godhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle · passive | historic light | the case |  |  |  | of a hero | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | we | a halo |  |  |  | as Cuculain; as godhood | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent halo=Theme as cuculain=Attribute |
| 3 | **settle** | gerund | godhood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around case; often *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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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