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title: At midnight Leagh went forth Though loth to leave his master to the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At midnight Leagh went forth Though loth to leave his master to the care Of cowherd rude, or swineherd. Who acts: Leagh, cowherd. 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 ev
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 31

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At midnight Leagh went forth Though loth to leave his master to the care Of cowherd rude, or swineherd.

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**Who acts:** Leagh, cowherd · **What happens:** go, leave, care · **To what, where:** swineherd, master, care

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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 (Leagh, cowherd), 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:pg78491:14:33
# text = At midnight Leagh went forth Though loth to leave his master to the care Of cowherd rude, or swineherd.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Leagh	Leagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	Though	though	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	loth	loth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	cowherd	cowherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Leagh | swineherd |  |  | midnight | loth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Leagh *not said here* | Leagh's master | the care of cowherd |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Theme to care=Recipient |
| 3 | **care** |  | cowherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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