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title: In youth her lord Was Conor Conchobar, great Uladh’s King: She had n… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In youth her lord Was Conor Conchobar, great Uladh’s King: She had not found him docile to her will, And to her sire returned. Who acts: lord, warrioress. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 16

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In youth her lord Was Conor Conchobar, great Uladh’s King: She had not found him docile to her will, And to her sire returned.

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**Who acts:** lord, warrioress · **What happens:** be, not find, return · **To what, where:** Conor, husband, youth

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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 (lord, warrioress), 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:pg78491:11:18
# text = In youth her lord Was Conor Conchobar, great Uladh’s King: She had not found him docile to her will, And to her sire returned.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	Conchobar	Conchobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	docile	docile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | warrioress's lord | Conor |  |  |  | Uladh's great King *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **find** | past · perfect | warrioress | husband |  |  |  | docile *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **return** | past |  |  |  | youth |  | to warrioress's sire *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sire=Result |

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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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