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title: Age of the FIRBOLGS and third cycle of the Fomorians, once gods, but… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Age of the FIRBOLGS and third cycle of the Fomorians, once gods, but expulsed from their sovereignty by the Tuatha De Danan, after which they loom through the heroic literature as giants of the elder time, overthrown by the gods. Who acts: gods. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by S
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 2

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Age of the FIRBOLGS and third cycle of the Fomorians, once gods, but expulsed from their sovereignty by the Tuatha De Danan, after which they loom through the heroic literature as giants of the elder time, overthrown by the gods.

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** expuls, loom, overthrow · **To what, where:** Age, sovereignty, heroic literature, elder time

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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), 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:pg8109:10:2
# text = Age of the FIRBOLGS and third cycle of the Fomorians, once gods, but expulsed from their sovereignty by the Tuatha De Danan, after which they loom through the heroic literature as giants of the elder time, overthrown by the gods.
1	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	FIRBOLGS	FIRBOLGS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fomorians	Fomorian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	expulsed	expuls	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	Danan	Danan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	loom	loom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expuls** | participle |  | Age of the FIRBOLGS and third cycle of the Fomorians |  | gods's sovereignty |  | by the Tuatha Danan | tree rules |
| 2 | **loom** | present | gods *= god* |  |  | the heroic literature |  | as giants of the elder time; which *obl* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through literature=Location |
| 3 | **overthrow** | participle |  | the elder time *not said here* |  |  |  | by the gods | tree rules |

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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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