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title: Amid them stood Cuchullain; near him, seen by him alone, That dread… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Amid them stood Cuchullain; near him, seen by him alone, That dread Mor Reega, now benign. Who acts: That. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 101

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Amid them stood Cuchullain; near him, seen by him alone, That dread Mor Reega, now benign.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** stand, see, drea · **To what, where:** Cuchullain, Mor

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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:pg78491:12:103
# text = Amid them stood Cuchullain; near him, seen by him alone, That dread Mor Reega, now benign.
1	Amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl:agent	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dread	drea	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	Reega	Reega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	benign	benign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  | amid sons *= son*; near CUCHULLAIN | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cuchullain=Theme amid they=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | CUCHULLAIN *obl:agent*; alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **drea** | past | That | Mor |  |  |  |  | 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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