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title: Meantime within Murthemné’s land its lord Cuchullain, musing like a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 95

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Meantime within Murthemné’s land its lord Cuchullain, musing like a listening hound, For many a rumour filled that time the air, Sat in remote Dûn Dalgan\[27\] all alone, Chief city of his realm.

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**Who acts:** Meantime · **What happens:** muse, fill · **To what, where:** air

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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 (Meantime), 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:pg78491:11:97
# text = Meantime within Murthemné’s land its lord Cuchullain, musing like a listening hound, For many a rumour filled that time the air, Sat in remote Dûn Dalgan[27] all alone, Chief city of his realm.
1	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
2	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Murthemné	Murthemné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	musing	muse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	listening	listening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Dûn	Dûn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	Dalgan	Dalgan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **muse** | gerund | Meantime within Murthemné's land  Meantime's lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a listening hound | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fill** | past | Meantime within Murthemné's land  Meantime's lord | the air |  |  | saturday; time | for many; a rumour *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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