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title: The apotheosis of great men went forward, tirelessly; the hero of on… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The apotheosis of great men went forward, tirelessly; the hero of one epoch becoming the god of the next, until the formation of the Tuatha De Danan, who represent the gods of the historic ages. Who acts: apotheosis, one epoch, formation. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 34

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The apotheosis of great men went forward, tirelessly; the hero of one epoch becoming the god of the next, until the formation of the Tuatha De Danan, who represent the gods of the historic ages.

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**Who acts:** apotheosis, one epoch, formation · **What happens:** go, become, represent · **To what, where:** hero, god, gods

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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 (apotheosis, one epoch, formation), 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:pg8109:10:34
# text = The apotheosis of great men went forward, tirelessly; the hero of one epoch becoming the god of the next, until the formation of the Tuatha De Danan, who represent the gods of the historic ages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apotheosis	apotheosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tirelessly	tirelessly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	epoch	epoch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Danan	Danan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the apotheosis of great men | the hero of one epoch and the formation of the Tuatha Danan |  |  |  | forward, tirelessly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | one epoch *not said here* | the god of the next |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **represent** | present | the formation of the Tuatha Danan | the gods of the historic ages |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot god=Theme |

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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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