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title: I drave to Daré’s Dûn: his loud-voiced sons Adored the Donn Cuailgné… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I drave to Daré’s Dûn: his loud-voiced sons Adored the Donn Cuailgné as their sire, And called their sire a calf. Who acts: I, loud voiced sons. 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 p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 135

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I drave to Daré’s Dûn: his loud-voiced sons Adored the Donn Cuailgné as their sire, And called their sire a calf.

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**Who acts:** I, loud voiced sons · **What happens:** drave, adore, call · **To what, where:** Dûn, Donn Cuailgné, sire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, loud voiced sons), 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:pg78491:12:137
# text = I drave to Daré’s Dûn: his loud-voiced sons Adored the Donn Cuailgné as their sire, And called their sire a calf.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drave	drave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Daré	Daré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Dûn	Dûn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	voiced	voiced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
13	Adored	adore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Donn	Donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drave** | present | I |  | Daré's Dûn |  |  | Dûn's loud voiced sons *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **adore** | participle | Dûn's loud voiced sons *not said here* | the Donn Cuailgné |  |  |  | as sons's sire | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cuailgné=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | past |  | sons's sire |  |  |  | a calf *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sire=Recipient |

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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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