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title: The elder gods, conquered and destroyed by the younger, could no lon… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The elder gods, conquered and destroyed by the younger, could no longer be regarded as really divine, for were they not proved to be mortal? Who acts: gods. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and t
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 157

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The elder gods, conquered and destroyed by the younger, could no longer be regarded as really divine, for were they not proved to be mortal?

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** conquer, destroy, regard, not be, be · **To what, where:** elder gods

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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 (gods), 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:pg8109:10:157
# text = The elder gods, conquered and destroyed by the younger, could no longer be regarded as really divine, for were they not proved to be mortal?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | participle · passive |  | the elder gods |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **destroy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the younger | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | could · passive |  |  |  |  |  | divine, long *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | gods *= god* |  |  |  |  | prove *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | gods *= god* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mortal *property* | 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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