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title: Ninety days Had fled successive since that strife began, When, on th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ninety days Had fled successive since that strife began, When, on the evening of the ninetieth day, His strength entire, and victory eagle-winged Fanning his ardent cheek, Cuchullain scaled Once more that specular rock. Who acts: strife, victory eagle, Cuchullain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen M
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 120

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Ninety days Had fled successive since that strife began, When, on the evening of the ninetieth day, His strength entire, and victory eagle-winged Fanning his ardent cheek, Cuchullain scaled Once more that specular rock.

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**Who acts:** strife, victory eagle, Cuchullain · **What happens:** flee, begin, wing, fan, scale · **To what, where:** Ninety days, ardent cheek, specular rock

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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 (strife, victory eagle, 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:pg78491:12:122
# text = Ninety days Had fled successive since that strife began, When, on the evening of the ninetieth day, His strength entire, and victory eagle-winged Fanning his ardent cheek, Cuchullain scaled Once more that specular rock.
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ninetieth	ninetieth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	victory	victory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	winged	wing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	Fanning	fan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	ardent	ardent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	scaled	scale	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	38	advmod	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
40	specular	specular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past · perfect · passive |  | Ninety days |  |  | evening | successive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | that strife |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wing** | past | victory eagle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fan** | gerund | victory eagle *not said here* | strife's ardent cheek |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **scale** | past | Cuchullain | that specular rock |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Source |

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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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