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title: Gods lost their immortality, and were remembered as giants of the ol… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Gods lost their immortality, and were remembered as giants of the old time--mighty men, which were of yore, men of renown. Who acts: Gods, mighty men. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 20

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Gods lost their immortality, and were remembered as giants of the old time--mighty men, which were of yore, men of renown.

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**Who acts:** Gods, mighty men · **What happens:** lose, remember, be · **To what, where:** immortality

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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, mighty men), 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:pg8109:10:20
# text = Gods lost their immortality, and were remembered as giants of the old time--mighty men, which were of yore, men of renown.
1	Gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	yore	yore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Gods | gods's immortality |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immortality=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remember** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as giants of the old time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as giant=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | mighty men |  |  |  |  | of yore and men of renown; men of renown *conj* | 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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