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title: Cuailgné’s Donn is Conor’s Bull, not mine: Yet, though the king shou… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuailgné’s Donn is Conor’s Bull, not mine: Yet, though the king should hurl me outcast forth, To Meave that Bull shall go and bide a year. Who acts: Donn, king, To, Bull. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 44

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Cuailgné’s Donn is Conor’s Bull, not mine: Yet, though the king should hurl me outcast forth, To Meave that Bull shall go and bide a year.

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**Who acts:** Donn, king, To, Bull · **What happens:** be, hurl, meave, go, bide · **To what, where:** Bull, me

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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 (Donn, king, To, Bull), 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:pg78491:11:46
# text = Cuailgné’s Donn is Conor’s Bull, not mine: Yet, though the king should hurl me outcast forth, To Meave that Bull shall go and bide a year.
1	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Donn	Donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	Yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hurl	hurl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	outcast	outcast	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	Meave	meave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bide	bide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Donn | Cuailgné's Bull |  |  |  | Cuailgné *nmod:poss*; Conor *nmod:poss*; mine *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurl** | should | the king | me |  |  | yet | forth *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **meave** | infinitive | To |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | shall | that Bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bide** | infinitive | that Bull *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | 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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