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title: Those heroes who, as Fir-bolgs, received divine honours, lived in th… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Those heroes who, as Fir-bolgs, received divine honours, lived in the age of stone. Who acts: heroes. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 50

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Those heroes who, as Fir-bolgs, received divine honours, lived in the age of stone.

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**Who acts:** heroes · **What happens:** receive, live · **To what, where:** divine honours, age

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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 (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:pg8109:10:50
# text = Those heroes who, as Fir-bolgs, received divine honours, lived in the age of stone.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bolgs	bolg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | that heroes | divine honours |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; Fir bolgs *nsubj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | that heroes *not said here* |  |  |  | in the age of stone |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location |

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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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