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title: That day Cuchullain clomb a rock tree-girt And kenned beyond the for… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That day Cuchullain clomb a rock tree-girt And kenned beyond the forest’s roof a host Innumerable, the standards of Queen Meave, And Fergus, and the great confederate kings. Who acts: rock, tree girt. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 107

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That day Cuchullain clomb a rock tree-girt And kenned beyond the forest’s roof a host Innumerable, the standards of Queen Meave, And Fergus, and the great confederate kings.

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**Who acts:** rock, tree girt · **What happens:** girt, ken · **To what, where:** host

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, tree girt), 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:pg78491:11:109
# text = That day Cuchullain clomb a rock tree-girt And kenned beyond the forest’s roof a host Innumerable, the standards of Queen Meave, And Fergus, and the great confederate kings.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	girt	girt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kenned	ken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
19	Innumerable	Innumerable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	confederate	confederate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **girt** |  | rock |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ken** | past | a tree girt | a host and the standards of Queen |  |  | day | beyond the forest's roof; Fergus *obl*; the great confederate kings *obl* | 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:** «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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