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title: An unceasing translation of heroes into Tir-na-n-og went on through… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: An unceasing translation of heroes into Tir-na-n-og went on through time, the fairy-world of the bards, receiving every century new inhabitants, whose humbler human origin being forgotten, were supplied there with both wives and children. Who acts: unceasing translation, humbler, heroes. A sentence 
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 33

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An unceasing translation of heroes into Tir-na-n-og went on through time, the fairy-world of the bards, receiving every century new inhabitants, whose humbler human origin being forgotten, were supplied there with both wives and children.

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**Who acts:** unceasing translation, humbler, heroes · **What happens:** go on, receive, origin, forget, supply, translate · **To what, where:** new inhabitants, human origin, n og

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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 (unceasing translation, humbler, heroes), 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:pg8109:10:33
# text = An unceasing translation of heroes into Tir-na-n-og went on through time, the fairy-world of the bards, receiving every century new inhabitants, whose humbler human origin being forgotten, were supplied there with both wives and children.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unceasing	unceasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	Tir	Tir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	na	na	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	og	og	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	humbler	humbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | a unceasing translation of heroes into n og  Tir |  |  |  | time |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | a unceasing translation of heroes into n og  Tir *not said here* | new inhabitants |  |  | century |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme |
| 3 | **origin** |  | human origin's humbler |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | gerund · passive |  | human origin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **supply** | past · passive | a unceasing translation of heroes into n og  Tir *not said here* |  |  | there |  | with both wives and children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with wife=Theme |
| 6 | **translate** |  | heroes |  |  | n og  Tir |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent into=place |

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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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