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title: Next he told How to that child, Setanta first, there fell Cuchullain… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next he told How to that child, Setanta first, there fell Cuchullain’s nobler name. Who acts: youth, Cuchullain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 130

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Next he told How to that child, Setanta first, there fell Cuchullain’s nobler name.

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**Who acts:** youth, Cuchullain · **What happens:** tell, fall, name · **To what, where:** child, nobler name · **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 (youth, 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:pg78491:11:132
# text = Next he told How to that child, Setanta first, there fell Cuchullain’s nobler name.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Setanta	Setanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | youth |  | that child |  |  | first, next *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | youth *not said here* | Cuchullain's nobler name |  | there |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient name=Result |
| 3 | **name** |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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