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title: Cailitin, lord of the Magic Clan, counsels Meave to send against Cuc… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cailitin, lord of the Magic Clan, counsels Meave to send against Cuchullain his best-loved friend Ferdīa; yet she sends, instead, Lok Mac Favesh. Who acts: Cailitin, Meave. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with i
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 7

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Cailitin, lord of the Magic Clan, counsels Meave to send against Cuchullain his best-loved friend Ferdīa; yet she sends, instead, Lok Mac Favesh.

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**Who acts:** Cailitin, Meave · **What happens:** send, love

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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 (Cailitin, Meave), 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:pg78491:12:9
# text = Cailitin, lord of the Magic Clan, counsels Meave to send against Cuchullain his best-loved friend Ferdīa; yet she sends, instead, Lok Mac Favesh.
1	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Clan	Clan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	counsels	counsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
20	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	Lok	Lok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Favesh	Favesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | to-infinitive | Cailitin and counsels |  |  |  |  | against Cuchullain; Meave *nsubj*; CUCHULLAIN's loved friend *advcl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **send** | present | Meave |  |  |  |  | instead Mac Favesh | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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