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title: The morrow morn Cuchullain reached a lawn: tall autumn grass Whitene… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The morrow morn Cuchullain reached a lawn: tall autumn grass Whitened within it; but the Beech trees round Were russet brown, the thorn-brakes berry-flushed: Passing, he raised his spear, and launched it forth Earthward: there stood it buried in the soil Halfway, and quivering. Who acts: morrow morn
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 159

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The morrow morn Cuchullain reached a lawn: tall autumn grass Whitened within it; but the Beech trees round Were russet brown, the thorn-brakes berry-flushed: Passing, he raised his spear, and launched it forth Earthward: there stood it buried in the soil Halfway, and quivering.

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**Who acts:** morrow morn, tree · **What happens:** reach, whiten, flush, pass, raise, launch · **To what, where:** lawn, tall autumn grass, thorn brakes, spear, morn, soil

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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 (morrow morn, tree), 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:pg78491:11:161
# text = The morrow morn Cuchullain reached a lawn: tall autumn grass Whitened within it; but the Beech trees round Were russet brown, the thorn-brakes berry-flushed: Passing, he raised his spear, and launched it forth Earthward: there stood it buried in the soil Halfway, and quivering.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	Whitened	whiten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Beech	Beech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Were	were	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	russet	russet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	brakes	brake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	flushed	flush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	Earthward	Earthward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
46	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
47	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	xcomp	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	Halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	quivering	quiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the morrow morn | a lawn |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lawn=Theme |
| 2 | **whiten** | participle |  | tall autumn grass *not said here* |  |  |  | within morn | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **flush** | participle · passive |  | the thorn brakes |  |  |  | berry *compound* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | the morrow morn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **raise** | past | tree | tree's spear |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |
| 6 | **launch** | past | the morrow morn *not said here* | morn |  |  |  | Earthward *obj*; forth *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **stand** | past | the morrow morn *not said here* | morn |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **bury** | participle | the morrow morn *not said here* |  |  | the soil |  | halfway *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in soil=Destination |
| 9 | **quiver** | gerund | the morrow morn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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