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title: Meave, Queen of Connacht,[24] and Ailill her husband, waking one mor… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meave, Queen of Connacht,[24] and Ailill her husband, waking one morning fall into a disputation, each claiming to be the worthier of the two, and the wealthier. Who acts: Meave husband, each. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Open
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 4

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Meave, Queen of Connacht,\[24\] and Ailill her husband, waking one morning fall into a disputation, each claiming to be the worthier of the two, and the wealthier.

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**Who acts:** Meave husband, each · **What happens:** wake, claim, be · **To what, where:** morning fall, disputation, Meave husband · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Meave husband, each), 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:pg78491:11:6
# text = Meave, Queen of Connacht,[24] and Ailill her husband, waking one morning fall into a disputation, each claiming to be the worthier of the two, and the wealthier.
1	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Connacht	Connacht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	disputation	disputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	worthier	worthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	ccomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wealthier	wealthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | gerund | Ailill's Meave husband *not said here* | morning fall |  | a disputation |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fall=Patient |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the two; worthy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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