--- title: Next round the second bulwark raged the war Hour after hour: heroic… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Next round the second bulwark raged the war Hour after hour: heroic deeds were done: Heroic deaths were died: at last it fell: Again and nearer rose the conquerors’ shout: Again with bolder foot and forehead flushed Leagh to Cuchullain moved and touched him not But, bending, murmured, ‘Heard you not --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/226/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/) / 226 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 226 Next round the second bulwark raged the war Hour after hour: heroic deeds were done: Heroic deaths were died: at last it fell: Again and nearer rose the conquerors’ shout: Again with bolder foot and forehead flushed Leagh to Cuchullain moved and touched him not But, bending, murmured, ‘Heard you not that sound?’ **Who acts:** second bulwark, land, nearer, forehead, Cuchullain, you · **What happens:** rage, do, die, fall, rise, flush · **To what, where:** heroic deeds, Heroic deaths, last, shout, Leagh 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 (second bulwark, land, nearer, forehead), 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:pg78491:15:228 # text = Next round the second bulwark raged the war Hour after hour: heroic deeds were done: Heroic deaths were died: at last it fell: Again and nearer rose the conquerors’ shout: Again with bolder foot and forehead flushed Leagh to Cuchullain moved and touched him not But, bending, murmured, ‘Heard you not that sound?’ 1 Next next ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 round round ADP IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 bulwark bulwark NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 raged rage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 heroic heroic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Heroic heroic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 nsubj _ _ 31 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 conquerors conqueror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 shout shout NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Again again ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 bolder bold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 amod _ _ 40 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 flushed flush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 44 Leagh Leagh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 Cuchullain Cuchullain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 52 But but CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 murmured murmur VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 58 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 Heard heard INTJ UH _ 63 discourse _ _ 60 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 61 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 63 advmod _ _ 62 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 63 nsubj _ _ 63 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ? ? PUNCT . _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rage** | past | the second bulwark | | | | hour | next *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past · passive | | heroic deeds | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **die** | past · passive | | Heroic deaths | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | past | land | | | last | again | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | | 5 | **rise** | past | nearer | the conquerors's shout | | | again | with bolder foot | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shout=Theme | | 6 | **flush** | past | forehead | Leagh | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent leagh=Source | | 7 | **move** | past | Cuchullain | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **not** **touch** | past | land *not said here* | Leagh | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | | 9 | **bend** | gerund | land *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **murmur** *speech: other* | participle | land *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **not** **sound** | | you | | | | | that *nsubj* | tree rules | | 12 | **shout** | | the conquerors | | | | | | nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/225/) - next →: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/227/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/)