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title: Fulfilled was thus Cuchullain’s word, breathed o’er Ferdīa dead, ‘Fi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fulfilled was thus Cuchullain’s word, breathed o’er Ferdīa dead, ‘Finobar snared thee. Who acts: Finobar. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 161

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Fulfilled was thus Cuchullain’s word, breathed o’er Ferdīa dead, ‘Finobar snared thee.

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**Who acts:** Finobar · **What happens:** fulfil, be, breathe, snare · **To what, where:** word, thee

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finobar), 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:pg78491:14:163
# text = Fulfilled was thus Cuchullain’s word, breathed o’er Ferdīa dead, ‘Finobar snared thee.
1	Fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	snared	snare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Cuchullain's word |  |  |  | Cuchullain *nmod:poss*; breathed o’er *appos*; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **breathe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snare** | past | Finobar | thee |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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