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title: After that, the great Fir-bolgic cycle, a cycle janus-faced, looking… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: After that, the great Fir-bolgic cycle, a cycle janus-faced, looking on one side to the mythological period and the wars of the gods, and on the other, to the heroic, and more particularly to the Ultonian cycle. Who acts: gods. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, E
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 29

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After that, the great Fir-bolgic cycle, a cycle janus-faced, looking on one side to the mythological period and the wars of the gods, and on the other, to the heroic, and more particularly to the Ultonian cycle.

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** look, war

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods), 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:pg8109:2:29
# text = After that, the great Fir-bolgic cycle, a cycle janus-faced, looking on one side to the mythological period and the wars of the gods, and on the other, to the heroic, and more particularly to the Ultonian cycle.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	Fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bolgic	bolgic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	janus	janus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	43	advmod	_	_
43	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	Ultonian	Ultonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the mythological period and the wars of the gods; on one side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme |
| 3 | **war** |  | the gods |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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