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title: Upon the right of that dim burial pit Was Conal Carnach standing; on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon the right of that dim burial pit Was Conal Carnach standing; on its left Cuchullain; each with brows in sorrow knit, Each with a heart by one sharp memory cleft: For true to Usnach’s sons in word and deed These twain had lived; yet failed them at their need. Who acts: Conal Carnach, twain, Bona
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 70

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Upon the right of that dim burial pit Was Conal Carnach standing; on its left Cuchullain; each with brows in sorrow knit, Each with a heart by one sharp memory cleft: For true to Usnach’s sons in word and deed These twain had lived; yet failed them at their need.

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**Who acts:** Conal Carnach, twain, Bonachts · **What happens:** be, stand, dee, live, fail, need · **To what, where:** Conal Carnach, left Cuchullain, Bonachts, need

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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: who acts (Conal Carnach, twain, Bonachts), 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:pg78491:7:70
# text = Upon the right of that dim burial pit Was Conal Carnach standing; on its left Cuchullain; each with brows in sorrow knit, Each with a heart by one sharp memory cleft: For true to Usnach’s sons in word and deed These twain had lived; yet failed them at their need.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	Conal	conal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Carnach	carnach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	brows	brow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	knit	knit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	For	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	deed	dee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
46	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
47	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Conal Carnach |  |  |  | upon the right of dim burial pit  that; by one sharp memory cleft | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | Conal Carnach *not said here* |  |  | Carnach's left Cuchullain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cuchullain=Location |
| 3 | **dee** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past · perfect | this twain |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fail** | past |  | Bonachts *= bonacht* |  | Bonachts's need | yet |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 6 | **need** |  | Bonachts *= bonacht* |  |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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