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title: With a bound Cuchullain, from the bank high springing, lit Full on t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With a bound Cuchullain, from the bank high springing, lit Full on the broad boss of Ferdīa’s shield, His dagger-point down turned. Who acts: broad boss, 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 dependen
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 173

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With a bound Cuchullain, from the bank high springing, lit Full on the broad boss of Ferdīa’s shield, His dagger-point down turned.

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**Who acts:** broad boss, Ferdīa · **What happens:** light, turn, point · **To what, where:** broad boss, dagger point

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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 (broad boss, 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:pg78491:13:175
# text = With a bound Cuchullain, from the bank high springing, lit Full on the broad boss of Ferdīa’s shield, His dagger-point down turned.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	springing	springing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Full	full	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past |  |  |  | the broad boss of Ferdīa's shield |  | with a bound and the bank high springing; full *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with bound=Material |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the broad boss of Ferdīa's shield *not said here* | Ferdīa's dagger point |  |  |  | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **point** |  | Ferdīa |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: 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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