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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 170

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Elsewhere the tomb, instead of developing as a tumulus or barrow, produced the effect of greatness by huge circumvallations of earth, and massive walls of stone.

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**Who acts:** tomb · **What happens:** develop, produce, effect · **To what, where:** effect, greatness

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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), 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:pg8109:10:170
# text = Elsewhere the tomb, instead of developing as a tumulus or barrow, produced the effect of greatness by huge circumvallations of earth, and massive walls of stone.
1	Elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	7	mark	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	developing	develop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tumulus	tumulus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	barrow	barrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	circumvallations	circumvallation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | gerund | the tomb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a tumulus or barrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **produce** | past | the tomb | the effect of greatness |  |  |  | by huge circumvallations of earth; massive walls of stone *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result |
| 3 | **effect** |  |  | greatness |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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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