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title: Chief minstrel he to Conor, Uladh’s[8] lord, Who graced that day, as… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief minstrel he to Conor, Uladh’s[8] lord, Who graced that day, as oft, his favourite’s board. Who acts: 8 lord. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 75

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Chief minstrel he to Conor, Uladh’s\[8\] lord, Who graced that day, as oft, his favourite’s board.

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**Who acts:** 8 lord · **What happens:** grace · **To what, where:** Chief minstrel

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (8 lord), 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:pg78491:2:80
# text = Chief minstrel he to Conor, Uladh’s[8] lord, Who graced that day, as oft, his favourite’s board.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	graced	grace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grace** | past | Uladh's 8 lord |  |  |  | day |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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