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title: Mananan was the god of the sea, of winds and storms, and most skille… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Mananan was the god of the sea, of winds and storms, and most skilled in magic lore. Who acts: Mananan. 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 71

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Mananan was the god of the sea, of winds and storms, and most skilled in magic lore.

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**Who acts:** Mananan · **What happens:** be, skill · **To what, where:** god, most, magic lore

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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 (Mananan), 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:pg8109:10:71
# text = Mananan was the god of the sea, of winds and storms, and most skilled in magic lore.
1	Mananan	Mananan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mananan | the god and winds and storms |  |  |  | of the sea; winds and storms *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **skill** | participle · passive |  | most |  | magic lore |  |  | 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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