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title: By the stream Cuchullain stood: not yet he knew his foe; That foe wh… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: By the stream Cuchullain stood: not yet he knew his foe; That foe who slowly to the Ford advanced Full panoplied, and in his hand a spear. Who acts: Cuchullain, foe. 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 depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 116

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By the stream Cuchullain stood: not yet he knew his foe; That foe who slowly to the Ford advanced Full panoplied, and in his hand a spear.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, foe · **What happens:** stand, not know, advance, panoply · **To what, where:** hand spear, foe

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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 (Cuchullain, foe), 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:pg78491:13:118
# text = By the stream Cuchullain stood: not yet he knew his foe; That foe who slowly to the Ford advanced Full panoplied, and in his hand a spear.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	Full	full	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	panoplied	panoply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Cuchullain | a hand spear |  |  |  | by the stream | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stream=Location |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past | Cuchullain | Cuchullain's foe |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer foe=Stimulus |
| 3 | **advance** | past | that foe |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **panoply** | participle | that foe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |

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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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