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title: Cuchullain cried, ‘What! children of the tempest-wakened lakes Saw y… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuchullain cried, ‘What! children of the tempest-wakened lakes Saw ye till now no billows? Who acts: Cuchullain, children. 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 pragmatics of every cla
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 240

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Cuchullain cried, ‘What! children of the tempest-wakened lakes Saw ye till now no billows?

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, children · **What happens:** cry, waken, see · **To what, where:** ye

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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, children), 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:pg78491:15:242
# text = Cuchullain cried, ‘What! children of the tempest-wakened lakes Saw ye till now no billows?
1	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wakened	waken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	Saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	_
16	till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	billows	billow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **waken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tempest *compound* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | children of the wakened lakes | ye |  |  | till no billows | What *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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