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title: Ere long they learned Rochad that site had chos’n, with Uladh’s King… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere long they learned Rochad that site had chos’n, with Uladh’s King Friendly but half, thence slow to prop his cause. Who acts: ’, site. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 118

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Ere long they learned Rochad that site had chos’n, with Uladh’s King Friendly but half, thence slow to prop his cause.

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**Who acts:** ’, site · **What happens:** learn, have, prop, cause · **To what, where:** Rochad, that, cause · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’, site), 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:pg78491:14:120
# text = Ere long they learned Rochad that site had chos’n, with Uladh’s King Friendly but half, thence slow to prop his cause.
1	Ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Rochad	Rochad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	chos’n	chos'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Friendly	Friendly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	prop	prop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | ’ *= '* | Rochad |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | site | that |  |  |  | with Uladh's Friendly  King but half; chos’n *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prop** | to-infinitive | ’ *= '* *not said here* | site's cause |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** |  | site |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: 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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