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title: When the second battle is well nigh lost Cuchullain wakes; and Meave… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the second battle is well nigh lost Cuchullain wakes; and Meave is driven in utter overthrow across the Shannon. Who acts: Cuchullain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 10

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When the second battle is well nigh lost Cuchullain wakes; and Meave is driven in utter overthrow across the Shannon.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain · **What happens:** lose, wake, drive · **To what, where:** second battle, Meave, utter overthrow

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg78491:15:12
# text = When the second battle is well nigh lost Cuchullain wakes; and Meave is driven in utter overthrow across the Shannon.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
9	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	across	across	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Shannon	Shannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · passive |  | the second battle |  |  |  | nigh, well *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wake** | present | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | present · passive |  | Meave |  | utter overthrow across the Shannon |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in overthrow=Destination |

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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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