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title: Panting then lay he, on his conqueror’s knee Resting his head; thenc… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Panting then lay he, on his conqueror’s knee Resting his head; thenceforth that conqueror’s friend, His “Liath Macha.” Who acts: knee. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 231

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Panting then lay he, on his conqueror’s knee Resting his head; thenceforth that conqueror’s friend, His “Liath Macha.”

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**Who acts:** knee · **What happens:** pant, lie, rest · **To what, where:** Cuchullain, knee, head

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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 (knee), 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:pg78491:11:233
# text = Panting then lay he, on his conqueror’s knee Resting his head; thenceforth that conqueror’s friend, His “Liath Macha.”
1	Panting	pant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	Resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Liath	Liath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Macha	Macha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pant** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | past |  | Cuchullain |  | Cuchullain's conqueror's knee | then | that conqueror's friend *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | Cuchullain's conqueror's knee *not said here* | Cuchullain's head |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |

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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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