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description: This was that germ which, but for the overthrow of the bardic religion, would have developed into a temple in the classic sense of the word. Who acts: This. 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 166

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This was that germ which, but for the overthrow of the bardic religion, would have developed into a temple in the classic sense of the word.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, develop, overthrow, sense · **To what, where:** germ, temple, bardic religion, word

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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 (This), 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:pg8109:10:166
# text = This was that germ which, but for the overthrow of the bardic religion, would have developed into a temple in the classic sense of the word.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	classic	classic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | that germ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** | would · perfect |  | that germ |  | a temple |  | for the overthrow of the bardic religion; in the classic sense of the word | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Material for overthrow=Beneficiary into temple=Product |
| 3 | **overthrow** |  |  | the bardic religion |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **sense** |  |  | the word |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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