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title: To recapitulate, the Dagda Mor was a divine title given to a hero na… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: To recapitulate, the Dagda Mor was a divine title given to a hero named Eocaidh, who lived many centuries before the birth of Christ, and in the depths of the pre-historic ages. Who acts: Dagda Mor, divine title. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Thi
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 183

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To recapitulate, the Dagda Mor was a divine title given to a hero named Eocaidh, who lived many centuries before the birth of Christ, and in the depths of the pre-historic ages.

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**Who acts:** Dagda Mor, divine title · **What happens:** recapitulate, be, give, name, live · **To what, where:** depths, divine title, hero, birth

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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 (Dagda Mor, divine title), 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:pg8109:10:183
# text = To recapitulate, the Dagda Mor was a divine title given to a hero named Eocaidh, who lived many centuries before the birth of Christ, and in the depths of the pre-historic ages.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	recapitulate	recapitulate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Dagda	Dagda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	mark	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
16	Eocaidh	Eocaidh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	pre-historic	pre-historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recapitulate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the depths of the pre-historic ages |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Dagda Mor | a divine title |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  |  | a hero |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hero=Recipient |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  | a divine title *not said here* |  |  |  | Eocaidh *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live** | past | a divine title |  |  | the birth of Christ | century |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before birth=Location |

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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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