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title: For at that hour upon the cradle’s right Stood Conal Carnach; at its… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 93

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For at that hour upon the cradle’s right Stood Conal Carnach; at its left, though young, Swifter in chase, and stronger yet in fight, Cuchullain.

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**What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** Conal, left

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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: 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:pg78491:2:98
# text = For at that hour upon the cradle’s right Stood Conal Carnach; at its left, though young, Swifter in chase, and stronger yet in fight, Cuchullain.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	Stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Carnach	Carnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Swifter	Swifter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	_
27	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Conal |  | right's left | hour | in fight | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conal=Theme at left=Destination |

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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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