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title: These divine nations, with their many successive generations and dyn… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: These divine nations, with their many successive generations and dynasties, constitute a single family; they are all inter-connected and spring from common sources, and where the literature permits us to see more clearly, the earlier races exhibit a common character. Who acts: divine nations, litera
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 16

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These divine nations, with their many successive generations and dynasties, constitute a single family; they are all inter-connected and spring from common sources, and where the literature permits us to see more clearly, the earlier races exhibit a common character.

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**Who acts:** divine nations, literature, earlier races · **What happens:** constitute, connect, permit, see, exhibit · **To what, where:** single family, gods, us, common character

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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 (divine nations, literature, earlier races), 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:pg8109:10:16
# text = These divine nations, with their many successive generations and dynasties, constitute a single family; they are all inter-connected and spring from common sources, and where the literature permits us to see more clearly, the earlier races exhibit a common character.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	constitute	constitute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	inter	inter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	permits	permit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
35	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
39	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	exhibit	exhibit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **constitute** | infinitive | this divine nations and gods's many successive generations and dynasties | a single family |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Pivot |
| 2 | **connect** | present · passive |  | gods *= god* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **permit** | present | the literature | us |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the literature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **exhibit** | present | the earlier races | a common character |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=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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