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title: At that word Cuchullain left his car, and kissed his sire, And sooth… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At that word Cuchullain left his car, and kissed his sire, And soothed his wandering wits with meat and wine; And spake dissembling; ‘lo, these mantles warm! Who acts: Cuchullain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 102

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At that word Cuchullain left his car, and kissed his sire, And soothed his wandering wits with meat and wine; And spake dissembling; ‘lo, these mantles warm!

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain · **What happens:** leave, kiss, soothe, wonder, speak, dissemble · **To what, where:** car, word, sire, wandering wits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:11:104
# text = At that word Cuchullain left his car, and kissed his sire, And soothed his wandering wits with meat and wine; And spake dissembling; ‘lo, these mantles warm!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	soothed	soothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	spake	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	dissembling	dissemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	vocative	_	_
32	mantles	mantle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Cuchullain | Cuchullain's car |  | that word |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme at word=Location |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Cuchullain *not said here* | Cuchullain's sire |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sire=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **soothe** | past | Cuchullain *not said here* | Cuchullain's wandering wits |  |  |  | with meat and wine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wit=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **dissemble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **mantle** | present |  |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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