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title: On the banks of the Boyne he might have made boast of a huge sepulch… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the banks of the Boyne he might have made boast of a huge sepulchral mound still shown to the traveller, the tomb of Lewy, in whose veins the blood of the Tuatha was blended with that of the earlier Fomorian pirates. Who acts: Tuathan, huge sepulchral mound. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meav
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 15

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On the banks of the Boyne he might have made boast of a huge sepulchral mound still shown to the traveller, the tomb of Lewy, in whose veins the blood of the Tuatha was blended with that of the earlier Fomorian pirates.

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**Who acts:** Tuathan, huge sepulchral mound · **What happens:** make, show, blend, boast · **To what, where:** boast, banks, huge sepulchral mound, traveller, blood, veins

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, 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 (Tuathan, huge sepulchral mound), 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:pg78491:2:15
# text = On the banks of the Boyne he might have made boast of a huge sepulchral mound still shown to the traveller, the tomb of Lewy, in whose veins the blood of the Tuatha was blended with that of the earlier Fomorian pirates.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Boyne	Boyne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	sepulchral	sepulchral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Lewy	Lewy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	blended	blend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
43	Fomorian	fomorian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | might · perfect | Tuathan | boast of a huge sepulchral mound and the tomb of Lewy |  | the banks of the Boyne |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boast=Product |
| 2 | **show** | participle |  | a huge sepulchral mound *not said here* | the traveller |  | still |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to traveller=Recipient |
| 3 | **blend** | past · passive |  | the blood of the Tuatha |  | veins |  | with that of the earlier Fomorian pirates | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with that=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **boast** |  | a huge sepulchral mound |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication 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:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (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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