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title: O’er Uladh’s breadth Daily some chief, or fragment of a clan Long ch… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: O’er Uladh’s breadth Daily some chief, or fragment of a clan Long chilled by rumour of Cuchullain slain, Despite King Conor’s hest assailed the queen Marching, though late, on Eman. Who acts: breadth, chief, queen, Cuchullain slain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Irela
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 84

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O’er Uladh’s breadth Daily some chief, or fragment of a clan Long chilled by rumour of Cuchullain slain, Despite King Conor’s hest assailed the queen Marching, though late, on Eman.

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**Who acts:** breadth, chief, queen, Cuchullain slain · **What happens:** chief, chill, assail, march, rumour · **To what, where:** clan, queen, Eman

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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 (breadth, chief, queen, Cuchullain slain), 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:pg78491:14:86
# text = O’er Uladh’s breadth Daily some chief, or fragment of a clan Long chilled by rumour of Cuchullain slain, Despite King Conor’s hest assailed the queen Marching, though late, on Eman.
1	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Daily	Daily	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	chilled	chill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Despite	Despite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
26	hest	hest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	assailed	assail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	Marching	march	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chief** |  | O’er's breadth |  |  |  |  | fragment of a clan *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **chill** | participle |  | a clan *not said here* |  |  |  | by rumour of Cuchullain slain; long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **assail** | past | some chief | the queen |  |  |  | Despite King's hest *nsubj* | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
| 4 | **march** | gerund | the queen *not said here* |  |  | Eman |  | late *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on eman=Trajectory |
| 5 | **rumour** |  | Cuchullain slain |  |  |  |  |  | nom rumour «communication 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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