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title: He couched him by her side; Straight, her right wing, Finola o’er hi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He couched him by her side; Straight, her right wing, Finola o’er him spread: Ere long beneath the rock Fiacre she spied, Wounded yet more; yet soon he hid his head ’Neath her left wing, her nestling’s wonted place, And slept content in that beloved embrace. Who acts: Aodh, Ere, nestling. A sentence
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 68

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He couched him by her side; Straight, her right wing, Finola o’er him spread: Ere long beneath the rock Fiacre she spied, Wounded yet more; yet soon he hid his head ’Neath her left wing, her nestling’s wonted place, And slept content in that beloved embrace.

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**Who acts:** Aodh, Ere, nestling · **What happens:** couch, spread, spy, wound, hide, wont · **To what, where:** sun, Finola o’er, head, place, content, beloved embrace

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aodh, Ere, nestling), 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:pg78491:9:69
# text = He couched him by her side; Straight, her right wing, Finola o’er him spread: Ere long beneath the rock Fiacre she spied, Wounded yet more; yet soon he hid his head ’Neath her left wing, her nestling’s wonted place, And slept content in that beloved embrace.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	couched	couch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
21	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	Fiacre	Fiacre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	_
29	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Neath	neath	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	nestling	nestling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	wonted	wont	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
52	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
55	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	embrace	embrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **couch** | past | Aodh | sun |  |  |  | by Finola's side; Finola's Straight right wing *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | past | Aodh | Finola o’er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location o'er=Theme |
| 3 | **spy** | past | Ere |  |  |  |  | beneath the rock; ere *nsubj*; long *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wound** | participle |  |  |  |  | yet |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hide** | past | Aodh | Aodh's head |  |  | yet | neath Finola's left wing; soon *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 6 | **wont** | past | Finola's nestling *not said here* | place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sleep** | past | Ere *not said here* | content |  | that beloved embrace |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent content=Value in embrace=Location |

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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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