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title: If this tomb were raised to the hero whose name it bears immediately… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: If this tomb were raised to the hero whose name it bears immediately after his death, and in his mundane character, he must have been such a king as never existed in Ireland, even in the late Christian times. Who acts: chamber, tomb, king. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standis
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 121

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If this tomb were raised to the hero whose name it bears immediately after his death, and in his mundane character, he must have been such a king as never existed in Ireland, even in the late Christian times.

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**Who acts:** chamber, tomb, king · **What happens:** raise, name, be, not exist, die · **To what, where:** tomb, hero, king, mundane character, Ireland

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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 (chamber, tomb, king), 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:pg8109:10:121
# text = If this tomb were raised to the hero whose name it bears immediately after his death, and in his mundane character, he must have been such a king as never existed in Ireland, even in the late Christian times.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mundane	mundane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past · passive |  | this tomb |  | the hero  name bears after tomb's death |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hero=Destination |
| 2 | **name** |  | chamber |  |  |  |  | name bears after tomb's death *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | must · perfect | tomb | such king |  | tomb's mundane character |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **exist** | past | such king *not said here* |  |  | Ireland | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location |
| 5 | **die** |  | tomb |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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