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title: Meantime, that night within his forest lair In dreams Cuchullain lay… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meantime, that night within his forest lair In dreams Cuchullain lay, and saw in dreams, Not recent fights, but ocean and that isle Where with Ferdīa he had dwelt in youth, With Scatha--and another. Who acts: Cuchullain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 86

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Meantime, that night within his forest lair In dreams Cuchullain lay, and saw in dreams, Not recent fights, but ocean and that isle Where with Ferdīa he had dwelt in youth, With Scatha--and another.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain · **What happens:** lie, see, dwell · **To what, where:** dreams, youth, Meantime

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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 (Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:13:88
# text = Meantime, that night within his forest lair In dreams Cuchullain lay, and saw in dreams, Not recent fights, but ocean and that isle Where with Ferdīa he had dwelt in youth, With Scatha--and another.
1	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	In	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
28	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	With	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Scatha	Scatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Cuchullain | dreams *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dream=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  | dreams and recent fights |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dwell** | past · perfect | Cuchullain |  |  | youth |  | with Ferdīa; with Scatha | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in youth=Location |

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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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