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title: ‘Cathbad! give ear!’--for by him stood that hour The blind old Druid… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Cathbad! give ear!’--for by him stood that hour The blind old Druid with the silver hair-- ‘To Alba make they; thence ere long with power Return in vengeance! A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, with its dependency 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 40

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‘Cathbad! give ear!’--for by him stood that hour The blind old Druid with the silver hair-- ‘To Alba make they; thence ere long with power Return in vengeance!

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**What happens:** stand, make · **To what, where:** Cathbad give ear, hosts, Alba

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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 7. 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:pg78491:7:40
# text = ‘Cathbad! give ear!’--for by him stood that hour The blind old Druid with the silver hair-- ‘To Alba make they; thence ere long with power Return in vengeance!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cathbad	Cathbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	give	give	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Druid	druid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	To	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Alba	Alba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Cathbad give ear |  | thence | hour | by vale; the blind old Druid with the silver hair *obl*; long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | hosts *= host* | Alba |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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