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title: Millennium-lasting, and more so, for it is plain that one divine gen… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Millennium-lasting, and more so, for it is plain that one divine generation represents on the average a much greater space of time than a generation of mortal men. Who acts: panorama, one divine generation. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cyc
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 43

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Millennium-lasting, and more so, for it is plain that one divine generation represents on the average a much greater space of time than a generation of mortal men.

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**Who acts:** panorama, one divine generation · **What happens:** be, represent · **To what, where:** average

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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 (panorama, one divine generation), 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:pg8109:10:43
# text = Millennium-lasting, and more so, for it is plain that one divine generation represents on the average a much greater space of time than a generation of mortal men.
1	Millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	lasting	lasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | panorama |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | present | one divine generation |  |  | the average  a greater space of time than a generation of mortal men |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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