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title: Cuchullain spake: Ferdīa chose the javelin. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuchullain spake: Ferdīa chose the javelin. Who acts: Ferdīa. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 131

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Cuchullain spake: Ferdīa chose the javelin.

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**Who acts:** Ferdīa · **What happens:** choose · **To what, where:** javelin

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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 (Ferdīa), 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:pg78491:13:133
# text = Cuchullain spake: Ferdīa chose the javelin.
1	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	javelin	javelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Ferdīa | the javelin |  |  |  | Cuchullain spake *advcl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent javelin=Theme |

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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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