--- title: ‘The term _Mael_, Mull (or Moyle, as Moore calls it), does not prope… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘The term _Mael_, Mull (or Moyle, as Moore calls it), does not properly apply to the current itself, but to the _Mael_, or bald headland by which it runs.’--_Professor Eugene O’Curry. Who acts: Moore, term. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moore, term), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:16:85 # text = ‘The term _Mael_, Mull (or Moyle, as Moore calls it), does not properly apply to the current itself, but to the _Mael_, or bald headland by which it runs.’--_Professor Eugene O’Curry. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Mael Mael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Mull Mull PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Moyle Moyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 Moore Moore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 properly properly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 apply apply VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 25 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Mael Mael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 headland headland NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 -- -- PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Professor Professor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod:desc _ _ 47 Eugene Eugene PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 48 O’Curry O'Curry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | Moore | term | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **apply** | present · do-support | | the term | | | | to the current term; the Mael and Eugene Professor *parataxis*; properly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run** | present | term | | | | | by bald headland | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/85/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/)