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title: When he too falls, Cailitin and his twenty-seven sons, all magicians… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he too falls, Cailitin and his twenty-seven sons, all magicians, fling themselves upon Cuchullain to slay him. Who acts: Favesh. 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 o
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 8

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When he too falls, Cailitin and his twenty-seven sons, all magicians, fling themselves upon Cuchullain to slay him.

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**Who acts:** Favesh · **What happens:** fall, slay · **To what, where:** Cailitin, Favesh

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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 (Favesh), 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:pg78491:12:10
# text = When he too falls, Cailitin and his twenty-seven sons, all magicians, fling themselves upon Cuchullain to slay him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Favesh | Cailitin and Favesh's seven sons and all magicians |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive |  | Favesh |  |  |  |  | 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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