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title: This she does; yet Cuchullain, unaided, afflicts the whole army of M… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: This she does; yet Cuchullain, unaided, afflicts the whole army of Meave by exploits which to him are but sports. Who acts: This, 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 prag
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 9

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This she does; yet Cuchullain, unaided, afflicts the whole army of Meave by exploits which to him are but sports.

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**Who acts:** This, Cuchullain · **What happens:** do, afflict · **To what, where:** whole army

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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 (This, 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:pg78491:11:11
# text = This she does; yet Cuchullain, unaided, afflicts the whole army of Meave by exploits which to him are but sports.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	unaided	unaided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	afflicts	afflict	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	exploits	exploit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | This |  |  |  |  | Conor *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **afflict** | present | Cuchullain | the whole army of Meave |  |  |  | by exploits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer |

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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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