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title: Upon his feet Cuchullain sprang, his father’s tale complete: That ra… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon his feet Cuchullain sprang, his father’s tale complete: That rage divine which gave him strength divine Had fallen on him from heaven. Who acts: Cuchullain, rage divine, strength divine, father. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ver
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 155

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Upon his feet Cuchullain sprang, his father’s tale complete: That rage divine which gave him strength divine Had fallen on him from heaven.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, rage divine, strength divine, father · **What happens:** spring, give, fall, tell · **To what, where:** feet, tale, heaven · **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 (Cuchullain, rage divine, strength divine, 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:pg78491:12:157
# text = Upon his feet Cuchullain sprang, his father’s tale complete: That rage divine which gave him strength divine Had fallen on him from heaven.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | Cuchullain |  |  | space's feet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **give** | past | that rage divine |  | tale |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | strength divine |  |  | heaven |  | on CUCHULLAIN | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
| 4 | **tell** |  | CUCHULLAIN's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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