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title: Six days, and in Cuchullain’s cell no change-- The bud grew large; t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Six days, and in Cuchullain’s cell no change-- The bud grew large; the earlier violet died; He neither spake nor moved. Who acts: Six days, earlier violet. 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 tre
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 18

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Six days, and in Cuchullain’s cell no change-- The bud grew large; the earlier violet died; He neither spake nor moved.

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**Who acts:** Six days, earlier violet · **What happens:** grow, die, move · **To what, where:** cell

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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 (Six days, earlier violet), 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:pg78491:14:20
# text = Six days, and in Cuchullain’s cell no change-- The bud grew large; the earlier violet died; He neither spake nor moved.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Six days |  |  | Cuchullain's cell  no change |  | the bud *nsubj*; large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cell=Location |
| 2 | **die** | past | the earlier violet |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **move** | past | the earlier violet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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