--- title: Next morn Neara’s sons outsped the rest Car-borne with brandished sp… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Next morn Neara’s sons outsped the rest Car-borne with brandished spears; and, ere the dew Was lifted, came to where Cuchullain sat Beneath an oak, sporting with black-birds twain That followed him for aye. Who acts: Next morn, Cuchullain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Next morn, Cuchullain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:11:122 # text = Next morn Neara’s sons outsped the rest Car-borne with brandished spears; and, ere the dew Was lifted, came to where Cuchullain sat Beneath an oak, sporting with black-birds twain That followed him for aye. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 Neara Neara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 outsped outsp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 Car Car PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 brandished brandish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ere ere VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 27 Cuchullain Cuchullain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 Beneath beneath ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 sporting sport VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 compound _ _ 38 twain twain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ _ 40 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **outsp** | past | Next morn | the rest | | | | Neara's sons *nsubj* | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | participle | | the rest *not said here* | | | | with brandished spears | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **brandish** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ere** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lift** | past · passive | | the dew | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sit** | past | Cuchullain | | | a oak | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath oak=Location | | 8 | **sport** | gerund | Cuchullain *not said here* | | | | | with birds twain | tree rules | | 9 | **follow** | past | | Cuchullain | | | | for aye | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for aye=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/121/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)