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title: Then arose Marbhan, and spake; ‘Send prayer to Erin’s Saints That, b… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then arose Marbhan, and spake; ‘Send prayer to Erin’s Saints That, bowed o’er Fergus’ grave, they lift their hands For Erin at her need.’ Who acts: fragments, Fergus. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 96

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Then arose Marbhan, and spake; ‘Send prayer to Erin’s Saints That, bowed o’er Fergus’ grave, they lift their hands For Erin at her need.’

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**Who acts:** fragments, Fergus · **What happens:** arise, send, bow, lift, need · **To what, where:** Marbhan, prayer, hands, need

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fragments, Fergus), 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:pg78491:10:99
# text = Then arose Marbhan, and spake; ‘Send prayer to Erin’s Saints That, bowed o’er Fergus’ grave, they lift their hands For Erin at her need.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Marbhan	Marbhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Saints	Saint	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	For	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past |  | Marbhan |  |  | then | spake *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location marbhan=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | infinitive |  | prayer |  |  |  | Erin's Saints  That *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Destination saint=Theme |
| 3 | **bow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | o'er Fergus's grave | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lift** | present | fragments *= fragment* | fragments's hands |  | Fergus's need |  | for Erin | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at need=Destination |
| 5 | **need** |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | nom need «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:** «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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