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title: Cuchulain fights _three_ of them successively, has his wounds bound… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuchulain fights _three_ of them successively, has his wounds bound up by a strip of the maiden's garment, and then departs. Who acts: Cuchulain. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 28

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Cuchulain fights \_three\_ of them successively, has his wounds bound up by a strip of the maiden's garment, and then departs.

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**Who acts:** Cuchulain · **What happens:** have, bind up, depart, wound · **To what, where:** wounds

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchulain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:51:28
# text = Cuchulain fights _three_ of them successively, has his wounds bound up by a strip of the maiden's garment, and then departs.
1	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	successively	successively	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	departs	depart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Cuchulain | Cuchulain's wounds |  |  |  | successively *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 2 | **bind up** | participle |  | Cuchulain's wounds *not said here* |  |  |  | by a strip of the maiden's garment | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **depart** | present | Cuchulain *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wound** |  | Cuchulain |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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