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title: Doubtless, in his own territory, divine honours were still paid him;… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Doubtless, in his own territory, divine honours were still paid him; but in the national imagination and in the classical literature and received history, he was a giant of the olden time, slain by the gods, and interred in the rath which bore his name. Who acts: tomb, rath. A sentence of «Early Bar
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 160

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Doubtless, in his own territory, divine honours were still paid him; but in the national imagination and in the classical literature and received history, he was a giant of the olden time, slain by the gods, and interred in the rath which bore his name.

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**Who acts:** tomb, rath · **What happens:** pay, receive, be, slay, inter, bear · **To what, where:** Doubtless divine honours, history, giant, gods, rath, name

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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 (tomb, rath), 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:pg8109:10:160
# text = Doubtless, in his own territory, divine honours were still paid him; but in the national imagination and in the classical literature and received history, he was a giant of the olden time, slain by the gods, and interred in the rath which bore his name.
1	Doubtless	Doubtless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	interred	inter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rath	rath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · passive |  | Doubtless divine honours |  |  | still | tomb *obj*; the national imagination and the classical literature and a giant *parataxis* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient he=Asset |
| 2 | **receive** | past |  | history |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | tomb | a giant |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the gods | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **inter** | participle |  | the gods *not said here* |  | the rath |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bear** | past | the rath | tomb's name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 7 | **name** |  | tomb |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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