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title: That hour Cuchullain stood beyond the wall South of the city, yet th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That hour Cuchullain stood beyond the wall South of the city, yet that whisper heard! Who acts: hour, whisper. 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 186

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That hour Cuchullain stood beyond the wall South of the city, yet that whisper heard!

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**Who acts:** hour, whisper · **What happens:** stand, hear · **To what, where:** wall

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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 (hour, whisper), 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:pg78491:11:188
# text = That hour Cuchullain stood beyond the wall South of the city, yet that whisper heard!
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | that hour |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond wall=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past | that whisper |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: 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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