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title: Cuchullain saw, And straightway round that creature’s neck high-held… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuchullain saw, And straightway round that creature’s neck high-held Locked the lithe arms no struggles could unwind. Who acts: Cuchullain, struggles. 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 229

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Cuchullain saw, And straightway round that creature’s neck high-held Locked the lithe arms no struggles could unwind.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, struggles · **What happens:** see, hold, lock, unwind · **To what, where:** straightway, neck, lithe arms

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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, struggles), 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:pg78491:11:231
# text = Cuchullain saw, And straightway round that creature’s neck high-held Locked the lithe arms no struggles could unwind.
1	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lithe	lithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	struggles	struggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	unwind	unwind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Cuchullain | straightway |  |  |  | round that creature's neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer straightway=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | that creature's neck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lock** | participle |  | the lithe arms |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 4 | **unwind** | could | no struggles | the lithe arms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=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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