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title: The Greek gods, undoubtedly, had a long ancestry extending into the… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The Greek gods, undoubtedly, had a long ancestry extending into the depths of the past, but the sudden advent of civilisation broke up the bardic system before the historians could become philosophical, or philosophers interested in antiquities. Who acts: Greek gods, long ancestry, sudden advent, hi
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 87

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The Greek gods, undoubtedly, had a long ancestry extending into the depths of the past, but the sudden advent of civilisation broke up the bardic system before the historians could become philosophical, or philosophers interested in antiquities.

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**Who acts:** Greek gods, long ancestry, sudden advent, historians · **What happens:** have, extend, break up, become · **To what, where:** long ancestry, depths, bardic system, philosophical philosophers

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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 (Greek gods, long ancestry, sudden advent, historians), 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:pg8109:10:87
# text = The Greek gods, undoubtedly, had a long ancestry extending into the depths of the past, but the sudden advent of civilisation broke up the bardic system before the historians could become philosophical, or philosophers interested in antiquities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	advent	advent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
35	philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	xcomp	_	_
39	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Greek gods | a long ancestry |  |  |  | undoubtedly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancestry=Patient |
| 2 | **extend** | gerund | a long ancestry *not said here* |  |  | the depths of the past |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into depth=Path |
| 3 | **break up** | past | the sudden advent of civilisation | the bardic system |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | could | the historians | philosophical philosophers |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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