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title: sang the Egyptians, consciously ascribing mortality even to gods. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: sang the Egyptians, consciously ascribing mortality even to gods. 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 of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 22

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sang the Egyptians, consciously ascribing mortality even to gods.

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**What happens:** sing, ascribe · **To what, where:** Egyptians, mortality

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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: 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:pg8109:10:22
# text = sang the Egyptians, consciously ascribing mortality even to gods.
1	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	consciously	consciously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ascribing	ascribe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | the Egyptians |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egyptian=Theme |
| 2 | **ascribe** | gerund |  | mortality |  |  |  | gods *obj*; consciously *property* | 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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