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title: His wounds were deep: Deeper his grief; and stronger thence their po… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His wounds were deep: Deeper his grief; and stronger thence their power Though dead, that clan accursed of Cailitin, With ghostly spells darkening the warrior’s heart: As lie the dead, he lay. Who acts: wounds, ghostly spells, As, Cuchullain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legend
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 19

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His wounds were deep: Deeper his grief; and stronger thence their power Though dead, that clan accursed of Cailitin, With ghostly spells darkening the warrior’s heart: As lie the dead, he lay.

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**Who acts:** wounds, ghostly spells, As, Cuchullain · **What happens:** be, accurs, darken, lie, wound · **To what, where:** clan, heart, dead

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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 (wounds, ghostly spells, As, 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:pg78491:14:21
# text = His wounds were deep: Deeper his grief; and stronger thence their power Though dead, that clan accursed of Cailitin, With ghostly spells darkening the warrior’s heart: As lie the dead, he lay.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Deeper	Deeper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
12	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	Though	though	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	With	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	darkening	darken	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	As	A	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cuchullain's wounds |  |  |  |  | Deeper *conj*; wounds's stronger power and that clan *conj*; deep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accurs** | participle |  | that clan *not said here* |  |  |  | of Cailitin; with ghostly spells | tree rules |
| 3 | **darken** | gerund | ghostly spells *not said here* | the warrior's heart |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 4 | **lie** | present | As | the dead |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dead=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wound** |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: 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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