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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 94

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Cuchullain wrought his will: then, bleeding fast, Stood upright, leaning on his spear aslant; A warrior battle-wearied.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain · **What happens:** wrought, bleed, stand, lean, weary · **To what, where:** spear, warrior

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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 (Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:12:96
# text = Cuchullain wrought his will: then, bleeding fast, Stood upright, leaning on his spear aslant; A warrior battle-wearied.
1	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	aslant	aslant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	warrior	warrior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrought** | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bleed** | gerund | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  |  | then | fast *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lean** | gerund | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  | CUCHULLAIN's spear |  | aslant *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spear=Location |
| 5 | **weary** | participle · passive |  | warrior |  |  |  | battle *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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