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title: Conor, meantime, round Eman ranged his hosts There flocking night an… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Conor, meantime, round Eman ranged his hosts There flocking night and day. Who acts: Conor. 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 81

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Conor, meantime, round Eman ranged his hosts There flocking night and day.

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**Who acts:** Conor · **What happens:** range, flock · **To what, where:** hosts

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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 (Conor), 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:pg78491:14:83
# text = Conor, meantime, round Eman ranged his hosts There flocking night and day.
1	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ranged	range	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	flocking	flock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | past | Conor | Eman's hosts |  |  |  | Eman *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location host=Theme |
| 2 | **flock** | gerund | Conor *not said here* |  |  | there | night |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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