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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 6

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Meave hearing that Conor Conchobar, King of Uladh,\[25\] boasts a black Bull mightier yet, is fain to purchase it, but cannot prevail so far.

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**Who acts:** Conor, Meave hearing · **What happens:** boast, be, purchase, not prevail · **To what, where:** Meave hearing, hearing

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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, Meave hearing), 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:pg78491:11:8
# text = Meave hearing that Conor Conchobar, King of Uladh,[25] boasts a black Bull mightier yet, is fain to purchase it, but cannot prevail so far.
1	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
4	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	Conchobar	Conchobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	boasts	boast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | Conor | Meave hearing |  |  |  | a black Bull *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Meave hearing |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **purchase** | to-infinitive | Meave hearing *not said here* | hearing |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **prevail** | can | Meave hearing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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