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title: Now there were three great burying-places in Ireland--the Brugh of t… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there were three great burying-places in Ireland--the Brugh of the Boyne in Ulster, over which Angus Og is chief and god; the Shi’ mound of Cruachan Ahi, where Ethal Anbual presides over the underworld of Connacht, and Tailltin, in Royal Meath. Who acts: three great burying places, Ethal. A sent
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6

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Now there were three great burying-places in Ireland--the Brugh of the Boyne in Ulster, over which Angus Og is chief and god; the Shi’ mound of Cruachan Ahi, where Ethal Anbual presides over the underworld of Connacht, and Tailltin, in Royal Meath.

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**Who acts:** three great burying places, Ethal · **What happens:** be, bury, preside · **To what, where:** Angus chief, Brugh, underworld

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three great burying places, Ethal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:63:6
# text = Now there were three great burying-places in Ireland--the Brugh of the Boyne in Ulster, over which Angus Og is chief and god; the Shi’ mound of Cruachan Ahi, where Ethal Anbual presides over the underworld of Connacht, and Tailltin, in Royal Meath.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	burying	bury	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Brugh	Brugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Boyne	Boyne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	Angus	Angus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
23	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Cruachan	Cruachan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	Ahi	Ahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
38	Ethal	Ethal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	Anbual	Anbual	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	presides	preside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
41	over	over	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	underworld	underworld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Connacht	Connacht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	Tailltin	Tailltin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	Meath	Meath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | three great burying places in Ireland |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | Angus chief and god |  | the Brugh of the Boyne in Ulster |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **preside** | present | Ethal |  |  | the underworld of Connacht |  |  | 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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