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title: Nearest, crouched Great Conal Carnach patting of his sword Like nurs… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nearest, crouched Great Conal Carnach patting of his sword Like nurse that lulls an infant. Who acts: Nearest, nurse. 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 149

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Nearest, crouched Great Conal Carnach patting of his sword Like nurse that lulls an infant.

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**Who acts:** Nearest, nurse · **What happens:** crouch, lull · **To what, where:** Conal patting, infant

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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 (Nearest, nurse), 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:pg78491:12:151
# text = Nearest, crouched Great Conal Carnach patting of his sword Like nurse that lulls an infant.
1	Nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Carnach	Carnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	patting	patting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lulls	lull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch** | past | Nearest | Conal patting of King's sword like nurse |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location patting=Theme |
| 2 | **lull** | present | nurse | a infant |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus infant=Experiencer |

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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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