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title: Sudden he came to where Cuchullain stood Pasturing his steeds with g… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sudden he came to where Cuchullain stood Pasturing his steeds with grass and flower forth held In wooing, dallying hand. Who acts: Orloff, 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 173

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Sudden he came to where Cuchullain stood Pasturing his steeds with grass and flower forth held In wooing, dallying hand.

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**Who acts:** Orloff, Cuchullain · **What happens:** come, stand, pasture, hold, dally · **To what, where:** steeds, wooing, hand

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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 (Orloff, 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:pg78491:11:175
# text = Sudden he came to where Cuchullain stood Pasturing his steeds with grass and flower forth held In wooing, dallying hand.
1	Sudden	sudden	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	Pasturing	pasture	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	flower	flower	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
17	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	dallying	dally	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Orloff |  |  |  |  | sudden *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pasture** | gerund | Cuchullain *not said here* | Orloff's steeds |  |  |  | with grass | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent steed=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | present | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  | wooing |  | forth *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wooing=Location |
| 5 | **dally** | gerund | Cuchullain *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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