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title: Red-cheeked he spake; “Cullain! unwittingly I did thee wrong! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Red-cheeked he spake; “Cullain! unwittingly I did thee wrong! Who acts: Red, cry, Cullain. 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 141

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Red-cheeked he spake; “Cullain! unwittingly I did thee wrong!

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**Who acts:** Red, cry, Cullain · **What happens:** cheek, speak, do · **To what, where:** thee · **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 (Red, cry, Cullain), 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:pg78491:11:143
# text = Red-cheeked he spake; “Cullain! unwittingly I did thee wrong!
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	cheeked	cheek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Cullain	Cullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	unwittingly	unwittingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheek** | past | Red |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* |  | cry |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Cullain | thee |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; unwittingly, wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |

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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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