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title: If e’er Cuchullain rides in Uladh’s van Flee to thy hills and isles!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: If e’er Cuchullain rides in Uladh’s van Flee to thy hills and isles!’ Who acts: e’er, you. 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 84

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If e’er Cuchullain rides in Uladh’s van Flee to thy hills and isles!’

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**Who acts:** e’er, you · **What happens:** ride, flee · **To what, where:** van

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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 (e’er, you), 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:pg78491:11:86
# text = If e’er Cuchullain rides in Uladh’s van Flee to thy hills and isles!’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	e’er	e'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	Flee	flee	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | e’er |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flee** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Uladh's van |  | to thy hills and isles | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location |

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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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