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title: ‘Or house with Conal Carnach, leal and true: He to the court ere noo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Or house with Conal Carnach, leal and true: He to the court ere noon with us will ride-- Naisi! when on that causeway I and you That evening sang, what prayer hadst thou denied?’ Who acts: house, us, I. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 35

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‘Or house with Conal Carnach, leal and true: He to the court ere noon with us will ride-- Naisi! when on that causeway I and you That evening sang, what prayer hadst thou denied?’

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**Who acts:** house, us, I · **What happens:** ere, ride, sing, deny · **To what, where:** Naisi, causeway

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, us, I), 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:pg78491:6:36
# text = ‘Or house with Conal Carnach, leal and true: He to the court ere noon with us will ride-- Naisi! when on that causeway I and you That evening sang, what prayer hadst thou denied?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Carnach	Carnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	leal	leal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	40	mark	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	causeway	causeway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	conj	_	_
32	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	obj	_	_
37	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	hadst	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	obj	_	_
40	denied	deny	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ere** | past | house |  |  |  | noon |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | future | us | Naisi |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naisi=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | I | that causeway *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location causeway=Theme |
| 4 | **deny** | past · passive |  | that causeway |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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