Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 32

That mound is the tomb of Cuculain, once king of the district in which Dundalk stands to-day, and the ruins of whose earthen fortification may still be seen two miles from that town.

Who acts: mound, Dundalk · What happens: be, stand, see, ruin · To what, where: tomb, district, ruins, earthen fortification

This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mound, Dundalk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 mound	det
2	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tomb	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tomb	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tomb	det
5	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Cuculain	case
7	Cuculain	Cuculain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tomb	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 king	case
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tomb	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 district	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 district	det
13	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stands	obl
16	Dundalk	Dundalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stands	nsubj
17	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 district	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 day	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stands	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seen	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ruins	det
24	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 seen	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 fortification	case
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	28 fortification	nmod:poss
27	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fortification	amod
28	fortification	fortification	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ruins	nmod
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
30	still	still	ADV	_	32 seen	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 seen	aux:pass
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tomb	conj
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 miles	nummod
34	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 seen	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 town	case
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 town	det
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 miles	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tomb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that mound	the tomb			of Cuculain; king of the district appos	tree rules
2	stand	present	Dundalk		the district	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	see	may · passive		the ruins of the ruins of the ruins's earthen fortification's earthen fortification		still	two miles obj	tree rules
4	ruin			the ruins of the ruins of earthen fortification's earthen fortification's earthen fortification				nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 32