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title: The era of Concobar Mac Nessa and the Red Branch knights of Ulster w… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The era of Concobar Mac Nessa and the Red Branch knights of Ulster was long subsequent to the floruerunt of the Irish gods and their Titan-like opponents of this latter period, the names alone can be fairly held to be historic. Who acts: era. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Stan
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 43

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The era of Concobar Mac Nessa and the Red Branch knights of Ulster was long subsequent to the floruerunt of the Irish gods and their Titan-like opponents of this latter period, the names alone can be fairly held to be historic.

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**Who acts:** era · **What happens:** be, hold

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (era), 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:pg8109:3:43
# text = The era of Concobar Mac Nessa and the Red Branch knights of Ulster was long subsequent to the floruerunt of the Irish gods and their Titan-like opponents of this latter period, the names alone can be fairly held to be historic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Concobar	Concobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Nessa	Nessa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	floruerunt	floruerunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Titan	Titan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	opponents	opponent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
37	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
40	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
44	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the era of Concobar Mac and the Red Branch knights of Ulster |  |  |  |  | subsequent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | can · passive | the era of Concobar Mac and the Red Branch knights of Ulster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the floruerunt of the Irish gods and gods's Titan like opponents of this latter period and the names; fairly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the era of Concobar Mac and the Red Branch knights of Ulster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | historic *property* | 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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