--- title: Late that eve Cuchullain beckoned Leagh; ‘To Conor speed: Speak thus… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Late that eve Cuchullain beckoned Leagh; ‘To Conor speed: Speak thus; “Put on thine arms and save thy land Since now the Hound that kept thy gate is dead:-- Make no delay!”’ Who acts: eve, Hound. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eve, Hound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:14:32 # text = Late that eve Cuchullain beckoned Leagh; ‘To Conor speed: Speak thus; “Put on thine arms and save thy land Since now the Hound that kept thy gate is dead:-- Make no delay!”’ 1 Late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 eve eve NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Cuchullain Cuchullain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 beckoned beckon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Leagh Leagh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 To to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 Conor conor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 thus thus ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 Since since SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beckon** | past | that eve | Leagh | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | that eve *not said here* | | | | | to Conor speed; thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to speed=Co-Agent | | 3 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | that eve *not said here* | | | thine arms | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on arm=Destination | | 4 | **save** *in a quote* | present | that eve *not said here* | thy land | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | the Hound | thy gate | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Hound | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | | no delay | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset delay=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/)