--- title: Loud Cuchullain laughed, And cried, ‘It quivers like the tail of swi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Loud Cuchullain laughed, And cried, ‘It quivers like the tail of swine Gladdened by acorn feast!’ then drew he rein And with one sword-stroke felled a youngling Birch And bound it to that spear, and on its bark Silvery and smooth, graved with his lance’s point In Ogham characters the words, ‘Beware! --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/160/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/) / 160 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 160 Loud Cuchullain laughed, And cried, ‘It quivers like the tail of swine Gladdened by acorn feast!’ then drew he rein And with one sword-stroke felled a youngling Birch And bound it to that spear, and on its bark Silvery and smooth, graved with his lance’s point In Ogham characters the words, ‘Beware! **Who acts:** Loud, morn, lance · **What happens:** laugh, cry, quiver, gladden, draw, rein · **To what, where:** swine, youngling Birch, morn, Ogham characters · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Loud, morn, lance), 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:pg78491:11:162 # text = Loud Cuchullain laughed, And cried, ‘It quivers like the tail of swine Gladdened by acorn feast!’ then drew he rein And with one sword-stroke felled a youngling Birch And bound it to that spear, and on its bark Silvery and smooth, graved with his lance’s point In Ogham characters the words, ‘Beware! 1 Loud Loud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Cuchullain Cuchullain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 quivers quiver VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 swine swine NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 Gladdened gladden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 acorn acorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rein rein VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 29 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 32 felled fell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 youngling youngling NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Birch birch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 bound bind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 47 Silvery silvery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 parataxis _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 graved grave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 conj _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 53 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 lance lance NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’s 's PART POS _ 54 case _ _ 56 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 57 In in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 Ogham Ogham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 Beware beware VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | Loud | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Loud *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **quiver** | present | morn | | | | | like the tail of swine | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **gladden** | participle | | swine *not said here* | | | | by acorn feast | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **draw** | past | Loud *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 6 | **rein** | infinitive | Loud | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fell** | past | Loud *not said here* | a youngling Birch | | | | with one sword stroke | tree rules | | 8 | **bind** | past | Loud *not said here* | morn | | | | to that spear | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to spear=Co-Patient | | 9 | **grave** | participle | Loud *not said here* | | | | | with Loud's lance's point in Ogham characters and the words | tree rules | | 10 | **beware** | infinitive | Loud *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **point** | | Loud's lance | | | Ogham characters and the words | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/159/) - next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/161/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)