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title: A grave in Irish is Sid, the disembodied spirit is Sidhe, and this l… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: A grave in Irish is Sid, the disembodied spirit is Sidhe, and this latter word glosses Tuatha De Danan. Who acts: disembodied spirit, grave. 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
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 154

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A grave in Irish is Sid, the disembodied spirit is Sidhe, and this latter word glosses Tuatha De Danan.

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**Who acts:** disembodied spirit, grave · **What happens:** be, disembody, gloss · **To what, where:** Irish Sid, Sidhe, Tuatha

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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 (disembodied spirit, grave), 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:pg8109:10:154
# text = A grave in Irish is Sid, the disembodied spirit is Sidhe, and this latter word glosses Tuatha De Danan.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Sid	Sid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	disembodied	disembody	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Sidhe	Sidhe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	glosses	gloss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Danan	Danan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Irish Sid and Sidhe |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disembody** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the disembodied spirit | Sidhe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gloss** | present | a grave | Tuatha |  |  |  | this latter word *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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