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title: But on her ear Rolled forth that hour the lowings of that Bull Cuail… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But on her ear Rolled forth that hour the lowings of that Bull Cuailgné’s Donn: for he from Daré’s house Had heard, though far, the clamours of the host, And answered rage with rage. Who acts: Donn, host. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey D
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 64

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But on her ear Rolled forth that hour the lowings of that Bull Cuailgné’s Donn: for he from Daré’s house Had heard, though far, the clamours of the host, And answered rage with rage.

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**Who acts:** Donn, host · **What happens:** roll, hear, answer, clamour · **To what, where:** clamours, rage, Rolled hour

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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 (Donn, host), 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:pg78491:12:66
# text = But on her ear Rolled forth that hour the lowings of that Bull Cuailgné’s Donn: for he from Daré’s house Had heard, though far, the clamours of the host, And answered rage with rage.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lowings	lowing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	Bull	Bull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Donn	Donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Daré	Daré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	though	though	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	clamours	clamour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
38	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | Donn | the clamours of the host |  |  |  | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | rage |  |  |  | with rage | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rage=Eventuality |
| 5 | **clamour** |  | the host |  |  |  |  |  | nom clamour «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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