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title: And thus Cuchullain answered still in trance; ‘I heard the runnels i… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus Cuchullain answered still in trance; ‘I heard the runnels in Murthemné’s woods Snow-swoll’n in spring.’ Who acts: Cuchullain, I. 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 pragmati
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 224

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And thus Cuchullain answered still in trance; ‘I heard the runnels in Murthemné’s woods Snow-swoll’n in spring.’

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, I · **What happens:** answer, hear · **To what, where:** trance, woods

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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, I), 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:pg78491:15:226
# text = And thus Cuchullain answered still in trance; ‘I heard the runnels in Murthemné’s woods Snow-swoll’n in spring.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	runnels	runnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Murthemné	Murthemné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
17	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
18	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	swoll’n	swoll'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Cuchullain |  |  | trance | still | thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | I | the runnels in Murthemné's woods |  |  | spring | Snow swoll’n *obj* | 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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