--- title: ‘They met a young man of good family whose name was Aibhric, and his… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘They met a young man of good family whose name was Aibhric, and his attention was often attracted to the birds, and their singing was sweet to him, so that he came to love them greatly, and that they loved him; and it was this young man that afterwards arranged in order and narrated all their adven --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/) / 86 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 86 ‘They met a young man of good family whose name was Aibhric, and his attention was often attracted to the birds, and their singing was sweet to him, so that he came to love them greatly, and that they loved him; and it was this young man that afterwards arranged in order and narrated all their adventures.’--\_The Fate of the Children of Lir\_, prose version by Professor O’Curry. **Who acts:** Fail, name, singing, Aibhric, men · **What happens:** meet, be, attract, come, love, arrange · **To what, where:** young man, Aibhric, attention, Fail, order, adventures This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fail, name, singing, Aibhric), 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:pg78491:16:88 # text = ‘They met a young man of good family whose name was Aibhric, and his attention was often attracted to the birds, and their singing was sweet to him, so that he came to love them greatly, and that they loved him; and it was this young man that afterwards arranged in order and narrated all their adventures.’--_The Fate of the Children of Lir_, prose version by Professor O’Curry. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 Aibhric Aibhric PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 attracted attract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 singing singing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 51 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 53 det _ _ 52 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 54 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 arranged arrange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 acl:relcl _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 narrated narrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 56 conj _ _ 61 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 63 det:predet _ _ 62 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 -- -- PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 Fate Fate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 70 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 69 nmod _ _ 73 of of ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 Lir Lir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 75 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 , , PUNCT , _ 77 punct _ _ 77 prose prose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 78 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 obj _ _ 79 by by ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 80 Professor Professor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 81 nmod:desc _ _ 81 O’Curry O'Curry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 77 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 82 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Fail | a young man of good family | | | | the Fate of the Children of Lir *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | Aibhric's name | Aibhric | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **attract** | past · passive | | Aibhric's attention | | | | to the birds *result*; often *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bird=Result | | 4 | **is** | past | Fail's singing | | Aibhric | | | sweet *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | past | Aibhric | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **love** | to-infinitive | Aibhric *not said here* | Fail | | | | greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **love** | past | Fail | Aibhric | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 8 | **is a** | past | singing | this young man | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **arrange** | participle · passive | | this young man | | order | | afterwards *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in order=Destination | | 10 | **narrate** *speech: other* | participle | | men's adventures | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic | | 11 | **prose** | infinitive | | version | | | | by O’Curry Professor | tree rules | | 12 | **name** | | Aibhric | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 13 | **attend** | | Aibhric | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 14 | **sing** | | Fail | | | | | | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 15 | **adventure** | | men *= man* | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/)