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description: Even as late as the time of Alexander, the Greeks could believe a great contemporary warrior to be of divine origin, and the son of Zeus. Who acts: Greeks. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and th
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 37

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Even as late as the time of Alexander, the Greeks could believe a great contemporary warrior to be of divine origin, and the son of Zeus.

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**Who acts:** Greeks · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** great contemporary warrior

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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 (Greeks), 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:pg8109:10:37
# text = Even as late as the time of Alexander, the Greeks could believe a great contemporary warrior to be of divine origin, and the son of Zeus.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | could | the Greeks | a great contemporary warrior and the son of Zeus |  |  |  | of Alexander | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Greeks *not said here* | a great contemporary warrior and the son of Zeus *not said here* |  |  |  | of divine origin | 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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