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title: ‘Cuchullain paced the herbage thin that clothes Slieve Fuad’s summit. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Cuchullain paced the herbage thin that clothes Slieve Fuad’s summit. Who acts: 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 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 226

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‘Cuchullain paced the herbage thin that clothes Slieve Fuad’s summit.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain · **What happens:** pace · **To what, where:** herbage

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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), 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:pg78491:11:228
# text = ‘Cuchullain paced the herbage thin that clothes Slieve Fuad’s summit.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paced	pace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	herbage	herbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	det	_	_
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	_
9	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Fuad	Fuad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
12	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pace** | past | Cuchullain | the herbage |  |  |  | that thin clothes  Slieve's summit *obj* | 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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