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title: The fact that the grave of a hero developed slowly into the temple o… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact that the grave of a hero developed slowly into the temple of a god, explains certain obscurities in the annals and literature. Who acts: fact. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 155

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The fact that the grave of a hero developed slowly into the temple of a god, explains certain obscurities in the annals and literature.

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**Who acts:** fact · **What happens:** develop, explain · **To what, where:** hero, temple, certain obscurities, annals

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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 (fact), 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:pg8109:10:155
# text = The fact that the grave of a hero developed slowly into the temple of a god, explains certain obscurities in the annals and literature.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	obscurities	obscurity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	annals	annal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | participle |  | a hero *not said here* |  | the temple of a god |  | slowly *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into temple=Product |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the fact  the grave of a hero | certain obscurities |  | the annals and literature |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obscurity=Topic |

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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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