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title: They, too, smitten by a more celestial light, vanished from their hi… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: They, too, smitten by a more celestial light, vanished from their hills, like Ossian lamenting over his own heroes; those others still mightier, might say:-- Who acts: predecessors, Ossian, others. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 29

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They, too, smitten by a more celestial light, vanished from their hills, like Ossian lamenting over his own heroes; those others still mightier, might say:--

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**Who acts:** predecessors, Ossian, others · **What happens:** smite, vanish, lament, say · **To what, where:** hills, own heroes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (predecessors, Ossian, others), 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:pg8109:10:29
# text = They, too, smitten by a more celestial light, vanished from their hills, like Ossian lamenting over his own heroes; those others still mightier, might say:--
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
9	celestial	celestial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lamenting	lament	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | participle | predecessors *= predecessor* |  |  |  |  | by a more celestial light | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **vanish** | past | predecessors *= predecessor* *not said here* |  |  | predecessors's hills |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lament** | gerund | Ossian |  |  | tomb's own heroes |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | might | that others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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