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title: At that time lived also Conal Carnach, and his foster-son Cuchullain… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time lived also Conal Carnach, and his foster-son Cuchullain immeasurably the greatest of all Ireland’s legendary warriors. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 66

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At that time lived also Conal Carnach, and his foster-son Cuchullain immeasurably the greatest of all Ireland’s legendary warriors.

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**What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Conal

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78491:1:70
# text = At that time lived also Conal Carnach, and his foster-son Cuchullain immeasurably the greatest of all Ireland’s legendary warriors.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Carnach	Carnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	immeasurably	immeasurably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | Conal |  |  | time | the greatest  Conal's foster son of all Ireland's legendary warriors *obl* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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