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title: And he, without awaking, answered thus; ‘I heard the birds in Eimer’… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he, without awaking, answered thus; ‘I heard the birds in Eimer’s pleasaunce sing To greet our marriage morn.’ 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 pragma
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 227

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And he, without awaking, answered thus; ‘I heard the birds in Eimer’s pleasaunce sing To greet our marriage morn.’

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, I · **What happens:** awake, answer, hear, greet · **To what, where:** birds, pleasaunce sing, marriage morn

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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:pg78491:15:229
# text = And he, without awaking, answered thus; ‘I heard the birds in Eimer’s pleasaunce sing To greet our marriage morn.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	awaking	awake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	Eimer	Eimer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	pleasaunce	pleasaunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	To	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | gerund | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | I | the birds |  | Eimer's pleasaunce sing |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | our marriage morn |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morn=Theme |

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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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