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title: Twixt southern Erin and my Uladh’s realm, Runs Neeth: across that ri… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 48

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Twixt southern Erin and my Uladh’s realm, Runs Neeth: across that river lies a ford; Speak to Cuchullain; “By that ford stand thou, Guarding thy land.

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**Who acts:** Twixt · **What happens:** run, lie, speak, stand, guard · **To what, where:** Neeth, ford, river, Cuchullain, thou, land · **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 (Twixt), 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:pg78491:12:50
# text = Twixt southern Erin and my Uladh’s realm, Runs Neeth: across that river lies a ford; Speak to Cuchullain; “By that ford stand thou, Guarding thy land.
1	Twixt	Twixt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	Runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Neeth	Neeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	By	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Twixt and my realm | Neeth |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neeth=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | present | Twixt and my realm *not said here* | a ford |  | that river |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ford=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Twixt and my realm *not said here* |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cuchullain=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | infinitive | Twixt and my realm *not said here* | thou |  |  |  | by that ford | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme by ford=Destination |
| 5 | **guard** *in a quote* | gerund | Twixt and my realm *not said here* | thy land |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary |

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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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