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title: That eve Cuchullain drank the wave of Neeth, And wading reached Murt… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That eve Cuchullain drank the wave of Neeth, And wading reached Murthemné’s soil, his charge And knelt, and kissed it. Who acts: eve, wading, Murthemné. 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 a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

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That eve Cuchullain drank the wave of Neeth, And wading reached Murthemné’s soil, his charge And knelt, and kissed it.

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**Who acts:** eve, wading, Murthemné · **What happens:** drink, reach, kneel, kiss, wave, soil · **To what, where:** wave, soil, Neeth

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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 (eve, wading, Murthemné), 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:pg78491:12:57
# text = That eve Cuchullain drank the wave of Neeth, And wading reached Murthemné’s soil, his charge And knelt, and kissed it.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Neeth	Neeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	wading	wading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	Murthemné	Murthemné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | that eve | the wave of Neeth |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | past | wading | Murthemné's soil and wading's charge |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent soil=Theme |
| 3 | **kneel** | past | wading *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kiss** | past |  | wave |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | Neeth |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **soil** |  | Murthemné |  |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **charge** |  | wading |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: 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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