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title: There stood, or lay, The chiefs by Uladh worshipp’d. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood, or lay, The chiefs by Uladh worshipp’d. 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 148

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There stood, or lay, The chiefs by Uladh worshipp’d.

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**What happens:** stand, lay · **To what, where:** chiefs

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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: 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:pg78491:12:150
# text = There stood, or lay, The chiefs by Uladh worshipp’d.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	worshipp	worshipp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive |  | the chiefs |  |  |  | by Uladh worshipp ’d | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by 'd=Destination |

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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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