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title: After ninety days of combat Cuchullain’s father brings him tidings t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: After ninety days of combat Cuchullain’s father brings him tidings that all Uladh lies bound under a spell of imbecility. Who acts: father. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 11

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After ninety days of combat Cuchullain’s father brings him tidings that all Uladh lies bound under a spell of imbecility.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** bring, bind, spell · **To what, where:** tidings, CUCHULLAIN, spell, imbecility

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg78491:12:13
# text = After ninety days of combat Cuchullain’s father brings him tidings that all Uladh lies bound under a spell of imbecility.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	imbecility	imbecility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Cuchullain's father | tidings | CUCHULLAIN |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination tiding=Theme |
| 2 | **bind** | present · passive |  | tidings |  | a spell of imbecility |  | all Uladh *nsubj:pass* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **spell** |  |  | imbecility |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state 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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