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title: But the might Unholy of the clan of Cailitin That nightly hung above… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the might Unholy of the clan of Cailitin That nightly hung above him like a cloud Began to wither when that mist accursed Drifted from Uladh’s borders. Who acts: Unholy. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 204

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But the might Unholy of the clan of Cailitin That nightly hung above him like a cloud Began to wither when that mist accursed Drifted from Uladh’s borders.

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**Who acts:** Unholy · **What happens:** hang, wither, drift · **To what, where:** mist, borders

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unholy), 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:pg78491:15:206
# text = But the might Unholy of the clan of Cailitin That nightly hung above him like a cloud Began to wither when that mist accursed Drifted from Uladh’s borders.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	Unholy	Unholy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	Began	Began	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	wither	wither	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	accursed	accurs	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	Drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the Unholy of the clan of Cailitin  That |  |  |  |  | above Orloff; like a cloud; nightly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above he=Location |
| 2 | **wither** | to-infinitive | the Unholy of the clan of Cailitin  That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **drift** | past · passive |  | that mist |  | Uladh's borders |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from border=Trajectory |

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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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