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title: Cuchullain spares not: four score warriors dead Avouch it. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuchullain spares not: four score warriors dead Avouch it. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 50

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Cuchullain spares not: four score warriors dead Avouch it.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain · **What happens:** not spare, avouch · **To what, where:** spake

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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), 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:pg78491:13:52
# text = Cuchullain spares not: four score warriors dead Avouch it.
1	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spares	spare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	Avouch	avouch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spare** | present | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **avouch** | infinitive | Cuchullain *not said here* | spake *= speak* |  |  |  |  | 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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