--- title: With beckoning hand At last that Portent summoned from the main A hu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: With beckoning hand At last that Portent summoned from the main A huge sea-snake: round him it twined its knots: Then on Cuchullain fell the rage from heaven: A sword-blow, and that vast sea-worm lay dead! Who acts: Portent, hand, that, sword blow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portent, hand, that, sword blow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:12:93 # text = With beckoning hand At last that Portent summoned from the main A huge sea-snake: round him it twined its knots: Then on Cuchullain fell the rage from heaven: A sword-blow, and that vast sea-worm lay dead! 1 With with SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 beckoning beckon VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 Portent Portent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 twined twine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Cuchullain Cuchullain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 34 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 nsubj _ _ 41 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 45 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 46 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beckon** | gerund | Portent *not said here* | hand | | last | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 2 | **summon** | past | Portent | | | | | main *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **twine** | past | hand | hand's knots | | | | round snake | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knot=Theme round he=Destination | | 4 | **fall** | past | hand *not said here* | the rage | | Cuchullain | then | from heaven | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient rage=Extent from heaven=Initial\_State | | 5 | **worm** | | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lay** | present | a sword blow and vast sea worm | | | | | dead *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/92/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/)