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title: As Meave drew near Forth rolled the bellowing of Cuailgné’s Donn, Ca… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As Meave drew near Forth rolled the bellowing of Cuailgné’s Donn, Cause of that war. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 16

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As Meave drew near Forth rolled the bellowing of Cuailgné’s Donn, Cause of that war.

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**What happens:** draw, roll, bellow

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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: 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:pg78491:14:18
# text = As Meave drew near Forth rolled the bellowing of Cuailgné’s Donn, Cause of that war.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bellowing	bellow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Donn	Donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Cause	Cause	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Meave | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | past |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bellow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of Cuailgné's Donn | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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