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title: Questioned I then on battle-plain, or when On frosty nights we couch… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Questioned I then on battle-plain, or when On frosty nights we couched beneath one rug, Ancestral claims, traditions of the clan? Who acts: we. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 126

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Questioned I then on battle-plain, or when On frosty nights we couched beneath one rug, Ancestral claims, traditions of the clan?

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** question, couch · **To what, where:** I, battle plain

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg78491:13:128
# text = Questioned I then on battle-plain, or when On frosty nights we couched beneath one rug, Ancestral claims, traditions of the clan?
1	Questioned	question	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	On	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	couched	couch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	rug	rug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** *speech: other* | participle |  |  | I | battle plain | then |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **couch** | past | we |  |  |  | night | beneath one rug | tree rules |

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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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