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title: The first Who woke was Leagh, Cuchullain’s charioteer: Forth from th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The first Who woke was Leagh, Cuchullain’s charioteer: Forth from the opprobrious mist he passed like ship That cleaves the limit of some low marsh-fog And sweeps into main ocean. Who acts: first, Leagh, That. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aub
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 163

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The first Who woke was Leagh, Cuchullain’s charioteer: Forth from the opprobrious mist he passed like ship That cleaves the limit of some low marsh-fog And sweeps into main ocean.

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**Who acts:** first, Leagh, That · **What happens:** wake, be, pass, cleave, sweep · **To what, where:** Leagh, opprobrious mist, limit, main ocean

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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 (first, Leagh, That), 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:pg78491:12:165
# text = The first Who woke was Leagh, Cuchullain’s charioteer: Forth from the opprobrious mist he passed like ship That cleaves the limit of some low marsh-fog And sweeps into main ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Leagh	Leagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	opprobrious	opprobrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cleaves	cleave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
27	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | the first |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Leagh |  |  |  | Cuchullain's charioteer *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past | Leagh |  |  | the opprobrious mist |  | like ship; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mist=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **cleave** | present | That | the limit of low marsh fog |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient |
| 5 | **sweep** | present | That *not said here* |  |  | main ocean |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ocean=Destination |

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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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