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title: Thus spake the youth, then sang Lethean song, And, straight, Cuchull… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus spake the youth, then sang Lethean song, And, straight, Cuchullain slept. Who acts: you, Cuchullain. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 115

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Thus spake the youth, then sang Lethean song, And, straight, Cuchullain slept.

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**Who acts:** you, Cuchullain · **What happens:** speak, sing, sleep · **To what, where:** youth, Lethean song · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, 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:pg78491:12:117
# text = Thus spake the youth, then sang Lethean song, And, straight, Cuchullain slept.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	Lethean	lethean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the youth |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | Lethean song |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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