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title: The great tumulus of New Grange was the temple of the divine or supe… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: The great tumulus of New Grange was the temple of the divine or supernatural period of his spiritual or imagined career after death, and was a development by steps from that small unremembered grave where once his warriors hid the inurned ashes of the hero. Who acts: great tumulus, development, warr
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 185

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The great tumulus of New Grange was the temple of the divine or supernatural period of his spiritual or imagined career after death, and was a development by steps from that small unremembered grave where once his warriors hid the inurned ashes of the hero.

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**Who acts:** great tumulus, development, warriors · **What happens:** be, imagine, unremember, hide, inurn · **To what, where:** temple, development, grave, inurned ashes

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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 (great tumulus, development, warriors), 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:pg8109:10:185
# text = The great tumulus of New Grange was the temple of the divine or supernatural period of his spiritual or imagined career after death, and was a development by steps from that small unremembered grave where once his warriors hid the inurned ashes of the hero.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tumulus	tumulus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Grange	Grange	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
33	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nmod	_	_
34	unremembered	unremember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
35	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
37	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	inurned	inurn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the great tumulus of New Grange | the temple |  |  |  | of the divine or supernatural period of period's spiritual career after death | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | participle | the great tumulus of New Grange *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a development |  |  |  | by steps from small  that | tree rules |
| 4 | **unremember** | past | a development | grave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** | past | grave's warriors | the inurned ashes of the hero |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Patient |
| 6 | **inurn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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