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title: Thenceforth the ‘Hound of Cullain’[29] was his name, And Cullain’s h… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thenceforth the ‘Hound of Cullain’[29] was his name, And Cullain’s house well warded.’ Who acts: Hound, house. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 144

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Thenceforth the ‘Hound of Cullain’\[29\] was his name, And Cullain’s house well warded.’

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**Who acts:** Hound, house · **What happens:** be, ward · **To what, where:** name

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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 (Hound, house), 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:pg78491:11:146
# text = Thenceforth the ‘Hound of Cullain’[29] was his name, And Cullain’s house well warded.’
1	Thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cullain	Cullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	Cullain	Cullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	warded	ward	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	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 Hound of Cullain | Hound's name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ward** | past | Cullain's house | Hound's name *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | 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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