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title: The latter was argurgurotoxos [Transcriber's Note: Greek in the orig… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter was argurgurotoxos [Transcriber's Note: Greek in the original], but Lu was a sling bearing god. Who acts: latter, Lu, sling. 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 ever
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 62

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The latter was argurgurotoxos \[Transcriber's Note: Greek in the original\], but Lu was a sling bearing god.

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**Who acts:** latter, Lu, sling · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** Note, sling, god

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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 (latter, Lu, sling), 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:pg8109:10:62
# text = The latter was argurgurotoxos [Transcriber's Note: Greek in the original], but Lu was a sling bearing god.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	argurgurotoxos	argurgurotoxo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Transcriber	Transcriber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	Lu	Lu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
21	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the latter | Transcriber's Note |  |  |  | argurgurotoxos *nsubj*; Transcriber *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Lu | a sling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund | a sling *not said here* | god |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Patient |

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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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