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title: Gods, worshipped by the whole nation, declined and became topical, a… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Gods, worshipped by the whole nation, declined and became topical, and minor deities expanding, became national. Who acts: Gods, minor deities. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 19

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Gods, worshipped by the whole nation, declined and became topical, and minor deities expanding, became national.

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**Who acts:** Gods, minor deities · **What happens:** worshipp, decline, become, expand · **To what, where:** Gods

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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 (Gods, minor deities), 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:pg8109:10:19
# text = Gods, worshipped by the whole nation, declined and became topical, and minor deities expanding, became national.
1	Gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	topical	topical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deities	deity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	expanding	expand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worshipp** | participle |  | Gods *not said here* |  |  |  | by the whole nation | tree rules |
| 2 | **decline** | past | Gods |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **become** | past | Gods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | topical *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **expand** | gerund | minor deities |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **become** | past | Gods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | national *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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