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title: Then rose a recreant churl, And thus gave counsel; ‘Lure Cuchullain… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then rose a recreant churl, And thus gave counsel; ‘Lure Cuchullain here On pretext fair; and slay him at the feast!’ 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 45

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Then rose a recreant churl, And thus gave counsel; ‘Lure Cuchullain here On pretext fair; and slay him at the feast!’

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**What happens:** rise, give, slay · **To what, where:** recreant churl, counsel, Lure, feast

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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: 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:pg78491:12:47
# text = Then rose a recreant churl, And thus gave counsel; ‘Lure Cuchullain here On pretext fair; and slay him at the feast!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	recreant	recreant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	churl	churl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Lure	Lure	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
16	On	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	pretext	pretext	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  | a recreant churl |  |  | then | Lure *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location churl=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | counsel |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** | infinitive |  | Lure |  | the feast |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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