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title: Wounded and weak he came to aid his own: Too great such effort for a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wounded and weak he came to aid his own: Too great such effort for a wasted frame: That was Cuchullain’s death-dirge!’ Who acts: Cuchullain, That. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 196

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Wounded and weak he came to aid his own: Too great such effort for a wasted frame: That was Cuchullain’s death-dirge!’

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, That · **What happens:** come, aid, waste, be · **To what, where:** own, death dirge, Wounded great such effort

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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, That), 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:pg78491:15:198
# text = Wounded and weak he came to aid his own: Too great such effort for a wasted frame: That was Cuchullain’s death-dirge!’
1	Wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
11	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	dirge	dirge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **aid** | to-infinitive | Cuchullain *not said here* | Cuchullain's own |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **waste** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | That | Cuchullain's death dirge |  |  |  | Cuchullain *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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