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title: Backward stepp’d Cuchullain paces three: he reached the bank; He utt… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Backward stepp’d Cuchullain paces three: he reached the bank; He uttered low; ‘The Gae-Bulg!’ Who acts: stepp, Cuchullain. 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 cla
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 187

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Backward stepp’d Cuchullain paces three: he reached the bank; He uttered low; ‘The Gae-Bulg!’

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**Who acts:** stepp, Cuchullain · **What happens:** have, pace, reach, utter · **To what, where:** three, bank

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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 (stepp, Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:13:189
# text = Backward stepp’d Cuchullain paces three: he reached the bank; He uttered low; ‘The Gae-Bulg!’
1	Backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	stepp	stepp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	paces	pace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Gae	Gae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Bulg	Bulg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | stepp |  |  |  |  | the Gae Bulg *parataxis*; backward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pace** | present | Cuchullain | three |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location three=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Cuchullain | the bank |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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