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title: The queen crosses the Ford into Uladh, and captures the Donn Cuailgné. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 5

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The queen crosses the Ford into Uladh, and captures the Donn Cuailgné.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** cross, capture · **To what, where:** Ford, Uladh, Donn Cuailgné

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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 (queen), 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:pg78491:14:7
# text = The queen crosses the Ford into Uladh, and captures the Donn Cuailgné.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	captures	capture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Donn	Donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | present | the queen | the Ford |  | Uladh |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ford=Patient into uladh=Recipient |
| 2 | **capture** | present | the queen *not said here* | the Donn Cuailgné |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuailgné=Theme |

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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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