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title: The father and king of the gods is alluded to as dwelling there, goi… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The father and king of the gods is alluded to as dwelling there, going out from thence, and returning again, and there holding his invisible court. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 146

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The father and king of the gods is alluded to as dwelling there, going out from thence, and returning again, and there holding his invisible court.

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**What happens:** allude, dwell, go out, return, hold · **To what, where:** father, invisible court

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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: 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:pg8109:10:146
# text = The father and king of the gods is alluded to as dwelling there, going out from thence, and returning again, and there holding his invisible court.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	alluded	allude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allude** | present · passive |  | the father of the gods and king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | gerund |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund |  | father's invisible court |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=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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