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title: The laughter ceasing, spake King Conor’s son; ‘Recount the wonder of… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The laughter ceasing, spake King Conor’s son; ‘Recount the wonder of those fairy steeds That drag Cuchullain’s war-car!’ Who acts: laughter, wonder. 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 t
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 224

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The laughter ceasing, spake King Conor’s son; ‘Recount the wonder of those fairy steeds That drag Cuchullain’s war-car!’

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**Who acts:** laughter, wonder · **What happens:** cease, recount, drag, wonder · **To what, where:** war car, laughter, fairy steeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (laughter, wonder), 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:pg78491:11:226
# text = The laughter ceasing, spake King Conor’s son; ‘Recount the wonder of those fairy steeds That drag Cuchullain’s war-car!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	ceasing	cease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Recount	recount	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	appos	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drag	drag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
21	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | gerund | the laughter and King's spake son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **recount** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **drag** | present | the wonder of that fairy steeds | Cuchullain's war car |  |  |  | That *nsubj* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 5 | **wonder** |  |  | that fairy steeds |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=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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