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title: In her ear once more Sounded the word of Cailitin; ‘The man To fight… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In her ear once more Sounded the word of Cailitin; ‘The man To fight Cuchullain is the man he loves: His death were death to both.’ Who acts: man, death. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 10

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In her ear once more Sounded the word of Cailitin; ‘The man To fight Cuchullain is the man he loves: His death were death to both.’

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**Who acts:** man, death · **What happens:** sound, fight, be, love, word, die · **To what, where:** word, ear, Cuchullain, man, death, Cailitin

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, death), 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:pg78491:13:12
# text = In her ear once more Sounded the word of Cailitin; ‘The man To fight Cuchullain is the man he loves: His death were death to both.’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	Sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	To	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past |  | the word of Cailitin |  | Queen's ear |  | once *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuchullain=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the man | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | present | man | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | man's death | death |  |  |  | to both | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | Cailitin |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **die** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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