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title: Conor signed; Then brought his knaves ten swords, and lances ten: Cu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Conor signed; Then brought his knaves ten swords, and lances ten: Cuchullain eyed them each and snapt them all, The concourse marvelling. Who acts: Conor, Cuchullain. 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 dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 207

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Conor signed; Then brought his knaves ten swords, and lances ten: Cuchullain eyed them each and snapt them all, The concourse marvelling.

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**Who acts:** Conor, Cuchullain · **What happens:** sign, bring, lance, eye, snapt · **To what, where:** knaves, ten

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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 (Conor, Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:11:209
# text = Conor signed; Then brought his knaves ten swords, and lances ten: Cuchullain eyed them each and snapt them all, The concourse marvelling.
1	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knaves	knave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lances	lance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	eyed	eye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	snapt	snapt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	concourse	concourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	marvelling	marvelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | Conor |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Conor *not said here* | boy's knaves and ten swords |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knave=Theme |
| 3 | **lance** | present | Conor *not said here* | ten |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient |
| 4 | **eye** | past | Cuchullain | knaves *= knave* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **snapt** | infinitive | Cuchullain *not said here* | knaves *= knave* |  |  |  | the concourse marvelling *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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