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title: When rose the conquerors’ shout Leagh to Cuchullain crept, and touch… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When rose the conquerors’ shout Leagh to Cuchullain crept, and touched him not, Yet knelt and whispered, ‘Heard you not that sound?’ Who acts: you, Leagh. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 223

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When rose the conquerors’ shout Leagh to Cuchullain crept, and touched him not, Yet knelt and whispered, ‘Heard you not that sound?’

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**Who acts:** you, Leagh · **What happens:** rise, shout, creep, not touch, kneel, whisper · **To what, where:** Leagh

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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 (you, Leagh), 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:pg78491:15:225
# text = When rose the conquerors’ shout Leagh to Cuchullain crept, and touched him not, Yet knelt and whispered, ‘Heard you not that sound?’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Leagh	Leagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Heard	heard	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the conquerors *nmod:poss* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **creep** | past | Leagh to Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **touch** | past | Leagh to Cuchullain *not said here* | Leagh |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **kneel** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **sound** |  | you |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | 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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