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title: That Watch-Hound watching still by Uladh’s gate Is mightier thrice t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That Watch-Hound watching still by Uladh’s gate Is mightier thrice than Uladh: on his brow Spring-tide sits throned; yet ruin loads his hand. Who acts: Hound, That, ruin. 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 83

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That Watch-Hound watching still by Uladh’s gate Is mightier thrice than Uladh: on his brow Spring-tide sits throned; yet ruin loads his hand.

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**Who acts:** Hound, That, ruin · **What happens:** watch, be, sit, throne, load, tide · **To what, where:** mightier thrice, brow Spring tide, hand

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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 (Hound, That, ruin), 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:pg78491:11:85
# text = That Watch-Hound watching still by Uladh’s gate Is mightier thrice than Uladh: on his brow Spring-tide sits throned; yet ruin loads his hand.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
2	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
20	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	throned	throne	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	loads	load	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | Hound *not said here* |  |  |  | still | by Uladh's gate | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gate=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | That | mightier thrice |  |  |  | than Uladh; Hound *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | Hound's brow Spring tide |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throne** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **load** | present | ruin | Hound's hand |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 6 | **tide** |  | Hound |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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