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title: The mere king or champion, grown into a topical hero, would need a g… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The mere king or champion, grown into a topical hero, would need a greater tomb. Who acts: mere king. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 133

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The mere king or champion, grown into a topical hero, would need a greater tomb.

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**Who acts:** mere king · **What happens:** grow, need · **To what, where:** mere king, topical hero, greater tomb

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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 (mere king), 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:pg8109:10:133
# text = The mere king or champion, grown into a topical hero, would need a greater tomb.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	topical	topical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  | the mere king or champion *not said here* |  |  |  | into a topical hero *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hero=Result |
| 2 | **need** | would | the mere king or champion | a greater tomb |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tomb=Theme |

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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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