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title: He is slender as a maid; but in the crisis of battle, when his spiri… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is slender as a maid; but in the crisis of battle, when his spirit kindles, his stature becomes gigantic. Who acts: Cuchullain, spirit, stature. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 88

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He is slender as a maid; but in the crisis of battle, when his spirit kindles, his stature becomes gigantic.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, spirit, stature · **What happens:** be, kindle, become · **To what, where:** crisis

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchullain, spirit, stature), 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:pg78491:1:92
# text = He is slender as a maid; but in the crisis of battle, when his spirit kindles, his stature becomes gigantic.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	kindles	kindle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | as a maid; slender *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kindle** | present | Cuchullain's spirit |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | Cuchullain's stature |  |  |  |  | in the crisis of battle *result*; gigantic *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crisis=Result |

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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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