--- title: ‘King Conor caught and caged me, yet a child; King Conor into exile… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘King Conor caught and caged me, yet a child; King Conor into exile drave these Three; The growing greatness of that race exiled This day he fears; and calls them back: but we Desire a healthier breeze than makes resort Within the perfumed precinct of a court.’ Who acts: King, growing greatness, we. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/86/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/) / 86 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 86 ‘King Conor caught and caged me, yet a child; King Conor into exile drave these Three; The growing greatness of that race exiled This day he fears; and calls them back: but we Desire a healthier breeze than makes resort Within the perfumed precinct of a court.’ **Who acts:** King, growing greatness, we · **What happens:** catch, cage, grow, exile, fear, call back · **To what, where:** child, me, day, sureties, healthier breeze, resort This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, growing greatness, we), 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:pg78491:5:86 # text = ‘King Conor caught and caged me, yet a child; King Conor into exile drave these Three; The growing greatness of that race exiled This day he fears; and calls them back: but we Desire a healthier breeze than makes resort Within the perfumed precinct of a court.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 caged cage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 exile exile NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 drave drave NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 Three Three PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 greatness greatness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 exiled exile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fears fear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 Desire desire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 healthier healthy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 amod _ _ 43 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 than than SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 45 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 46 resort resort NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 47 Within within ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 perfumed perfume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 50 precinct precinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | King | a child | | | | King Conor into exile drave *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cage** | past | King *not said here* | me | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **exile** | past | the growing greatness of that race | | | | day | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fear** | present | King | this day *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer day=Stimulus | | 6 | **call back** *speech: assert* | present | | sureties *= surety* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 7 | **desire** | present | we | a healthier breeze | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breeze=Theme | | 8 | **make** | present | we *not said here* | resort | | | | within the perfumed precinct of a court | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resort=Product | | 9 | **perfume** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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/pg78491/5/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/)