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title: Cuchullain leaped therein: With feet far set he spurned its brazen f… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuchullain leaped therein: With feet far set he spurned its brazen floor That roared and sank in fragments. Who acts: Cuchullain, That. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 211

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Cuchullain leaped therein: With feet far set he spurned its brazen floor That roared and sank in fragments.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, That · **What happens:** leap, set, spurn, roar, sink · **To what, where:** brazen floor, fragments

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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 (Cuchullain, That), 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:pg78491:11:213
# text = Cuchullain leaped therein: With feet far set he spurned its brazen floor That roared and sank in fragments.
1	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	With	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spurned	spurn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
15	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | past | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with feet; far *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with foot=Instrument |
| 3 | **spurn** | past | Cuchullain | turn's brazen floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **roar** | past | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sink** | past | That *not said here* |  |  | fragments |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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