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title: At once forth stepped Mac Roth, old Connacht’s herald, with this wor… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At once forth stepped Mac Roth, old Connacht’s herald, with this word: ‘Great queen, the King of Uladh boasts a Bull Lordlier than ours, a broader bulk, and black, Black as the raven’s wing! Who acts: Great queen. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 36

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At once forth stepped Mac Roth, old Connacht’s herald, with this word: ‘Great queen, the King of Uladh boasts a Bull Lordlier than ours, a broader bulk, and black, Black as the raven’s wing!

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**Who acts:** Great queen · **What happens:** step, boast · **To what, where:** Mac, Bull

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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 (Great queen), 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:pg78491:11:38
# text = At once forth stepped Mac Roth, old Connacht’s herald, with this word: ‘Great queen, the King of Uladh boasts a Bull Lordlier than ours, a broader bulk, and black, Black as the raven’s wing!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Roth	Roth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Connacht	Connacht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	boasts	boast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	Lordlier	lordly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past |  | Mac |  |  |  | with this word; old Connacht's herald *obl*; forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mac=Theme |
| 2 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | Great queen | a Bull and a broader bulk |  |  |  |  | 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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