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title: Three days went by: Then stood Cuchullain where great wood-ways met;… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three days went by: Then stood Cuchullain where great wood-ways met; And lo! betwixt four yews a warrior’s grave, The pillar-stone above it! Who acts: Three days, betwixt four yews. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 115

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Three days went by: Then stood Cuchullain where great wood-ways met; And lo! betwixt four yews a warrior’s grave, The pillar-stone above it!

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**Who acts:** Three days, betwixt four yews · **What happens:** go by, stand, meet, grave · **To what, where:** Cuchullain, great wood ways

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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 (Three days, betwixt four yews), 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:pg78491:11:117
# text = Three days went by: Then stood Cuchullain where great wood-ways met; And lo! betwixt four yews a warrior’s grave, The pillar-stone above it!
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	yews	yew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	above	above	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past | Three days |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Three days *not said here* | Cuchullain |  |  | then | great wood ways *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cuchullain=Stimulus |
| 3 | **meet** | participle |  | great wood ways *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grave** |  | betwixt four yews |  |  |  |  | a warrior *nmod:poss*; the pillar stone above stone *conj* | tree rules |

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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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