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title: To her by night Came Cailitin, who ever walked by night Shunning man… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To her by night Came Cailitin, who ever walked by night Shunning mankind, and Fergus most of all, Cailitin, father of the Magic Clan, And thus addressed her; ‘Place in me thy trust! Who acts: Came, night, thy. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aub
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 66

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To her by night Came Cailitin, who ever walked by night Shunning mankind, and Fergus most of all, Cailitin, father of the Magic Clan, And thus addressed her; ‘Place in me thy trust!

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**Who acts:** Came, night, thy · **What happens:** walk, shun, address, trust · **To what, where:** mankind, host, Came

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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 (Came, night, thy), 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:pg78491:12:68
# text = To her by night Came Cailitin, who ever walked by night Shunning mankind, and Fergus most of all, Cailitin, father of the Magic Clan, And thus addressed her; ‘Place in me thy trust!
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	Came	Came	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	Shunning	shun	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Clan	Clan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | participle | Came to host by night and Fergus  most of all and Cailitin and father of the Magic Clan |  |  |  | ever; night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shun** | gerund | night *not said here* | mankind |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mankind=Location |
| 3 | **address** | past | Came to host by night and Fergus  most of all and Cailitin and father of the Magic Clan *not said here* |  | host |  |  | Place in me  thy trust *obl*; thus *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination |
| 5 | **trust** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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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