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title: At break of day Came Conal Carnach and the Red Branch Knights To see… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At break of day Came Conal Carnach and the Red Branch Knights To see the sick man’s face. Who acts: Came. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 218

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At break of day Came Conal Carnach and the Red Branch Knights To see the sick man’s face.

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**Who acts:** Came · **What happens:** see, break · **To what, where:** face, break, day

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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 (Came), 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:pg78491:15:220
# text = At break of day Came Conal Carnach and the Red Branch Knights To see the sick man’s face.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Came	Came	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Carnach	Carnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	To	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive | Came and the Branch Knights | the sick man's face |  | break of day |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 2 | **break** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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