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title: The cromlech alone, formed in very ancient times the central chamber… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The cromlech alone, formed in very ancient times the central chamber of the cairn; it is found in the centre of the raths on Moy Tura, belonging to the stone age and that of the Firbolgs. Who acts: cromlech. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cy
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 175

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The cromlech alone, formed in very ancient times the central chamber of the cairn; it is found in the centre of the raths on Moy Tura, belonging to the stone age and that of the Firbolgs.

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**Who acts:** cromlech · **What happens:** form, find, belong · **To what, where:** cromlech, centre

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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 (cromlech), 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:pg8109:10:175
# text = The cromlech alone, formed in very ancient times the central chamber of the cairn; it is found in the centre of the raths on Moy Tura, belonging to the stone age and that of the Firbolgs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cromlech	cromlech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	raths	rath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Moy	Moy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Tura	Tura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Firbolgs	Firbolgs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | participle | the cromlech |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | cromlech |  | the centre of the raths on Moy Tura |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund |  |  |  |  | to the stone age  that of the Firbolgs |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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