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title: The charioteer of Ferdīa sees Cuchullain advancing in his war-car to… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The charioteer of Ferdīa sees Cuchullain advancing in his war-car to the Ford, and, rapt by a prophetic spirit, sings his triumph. Who acts: charioteer, Cuchullain, 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 i
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 6

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The charioteer of Ferdīa sees Cuchullain advancing in his war-car to the Ford, and, rapt by a prophetic spirit, sings his triumph.

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**Who acts:** charioteer, Cuchullain, Ferdīa · **What happens:** see, advance, sing, triumph · **To what, where:** Cuchullain, war car, triumph

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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 (charioteer, Cuchullain, 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:pg78491:13:8
# text = The charioteer of Ferdīa sees Cuchullain advancing in his war-car to the Ford, and, rapt by a prophetic spirit, sings his triumph.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rapt	rapt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	csubj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | the charioteer of Ferdīa | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **advance** | gerund | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  | Ferdīa's war car |  | to the Ford | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ford=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the charioteer of Ferdīa *not said here* | Ferdīa's triumph |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location triumph=Theme |
| 4 | **triumph** |  | Ferdīa |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event intransitive»: 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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