--- title: While raged that fight Cuchullain’s stature rose, huge bulk, immense… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: While raged that fight Cuchullain’s stature rose, huge bulk, immense, Ascending still: as high Ferdīa towered Like Fomor old, or Nemed from the sea, Those shields, their covering late from foot to helm, Shrinking, so seemed it, till above them beamed Shoulders and heads. Who acts: stature, that, hig --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/179/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/) / 179 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 179 While raged that fight Cuchullain’s stature rose, huge bulk, immense, Ascending still: as high Ferdīa towered Like Fomor old, or Nemed from the sea, Those shields, their covering late from foot to helm, Shrinking, so seemed it, till above them beamed Shoulders and heads. **Who acts:** stature, that, high Ferdīa, feet · **What happens:** rage, fight, rise, ascend, tower, helm · **To what, where:** huge bulk, Nemed, stature, Shoulders 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 (stature, that, high Ferdīa, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:13:181 # text = While raged that fight Cuchullain’s stature rose, huge bulk, immense, Ascending still: as high Ferdīa towered Like Fomor old, or Nemed from the sea, Those shields, their covering late from foot to helm, Shrinking, so seemed it, till above them beamed Shoulders and heads. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 raged rage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 Cuchullain Cuchullain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 stature stature NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 bulk bulk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Ascending ascend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Ferdīa Ferdīa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 towered tower VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 Like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Fomor Fomor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 Nemed Nemed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 Those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 shields shield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 covering covering NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 37 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 helm helm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 Shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 till till SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 50 above above ADP IN _ 52 mark _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 beamed beam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 53 Shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obj _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rage** | participle | Cuchullain's stature *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fight** | present | that | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rise** | past | Cuchullain's stature | huge bulk | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ascend** | gerund | Cuchullain's stature *not said here* | | | | still | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tower** | past | high Ferdīa | Nemed from the sea | | | | like Fomor; old *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **helm** | to-infinitive | high Ferdīa *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **shrink** | gerund | high Ferdīa *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **seem** | past | | stature | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 9 | **beam** | past | feet *= foot* | Shoulders and heads | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/178/) - next →: [sentence 180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/180/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/)