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title: The Fomorians of this age were ruled over by Baler Beimenna and his… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fomorians of this age were ruled over by Baler Beimenna and his wife Kethlenn. Who acts: Baler. 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 6

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The Fomorians of this age were ruled over by Baler Beimenna and his wife Kethlenn.

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**Who acts:** Baler · **What happens:** rule over · **To what, where:** Fomorians

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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 (Baler), 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:pg8109:10:6
# text = The Fomorians of this age were ruled over by Baler Beimenna and his wife Kethlenn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fomorians	Fomorian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Baler	Baler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Beimenna	Beimenna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	Kethlenn	Kethlenn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule over** | past · passive | Baler and Ballysadare's wife | the Fomorians of this age |  |  |  | over *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |

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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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