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title: Prophet-like Up-towered old Cathbad, and his clan black-stoled. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prophet-like Up-towered old Cathbad, and his clan black-stoled. Who acts: Prophet. 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 198

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Prophet-like Up-towered old Cathbad, and his clan black-stoled.

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**Who acts:** Prophet · **What happens:** tower, stole · **To what, where:** old Cathbad, clan

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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 (Prophet), 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:pg78491:11:200
# text = Prophet-like Up-towered old Cathbad, and his clan black-stoled.
1	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Up	Up	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	towered	tower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Cathbad	Cathbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	stoled	stole	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tower** | participle | Prophet | old Cathbad |  |  |  | Up *compound* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cathbad=Theme |
| 2 | **stole** | participle · passive |  | prophet's clan |  |  |  |  | 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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