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title: On Uladh’s verge Southward that lesser realm dependent lay Girt by a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On Uladh’s verge Southward that lesser realm dependent lay Girt by a racing river. Who acts: lesser realm dependent. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 96

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On Uladh’s verge Southward that lesser realm dependent lay Girt by a racing river.

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**Who acts:** lesser realm dependent · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** that, verge Southward

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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 (lesser realm dependent), 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:pg78491:11:98
# text = On Uladh’s verge Southward that lesser realm dependent lay Girt by a racing river.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	verge	verge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Southward	southward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
7	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dependent	dependent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Girt	Girt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | lesser realm dependent | that |  | Uladh's verge Southward |  | by a racing river; Girt *obj* | 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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