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title: Fergus, the exiled King of Uladh, narrates to Meave the high deeds o… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fergus, the exiled King of Uladh, narrates to Meave the high deeds of Cuchullain wrought in his childhood. Who acts: Fergus. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 10

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Fergus, the exiled King of Uladh, narrates to Meave the high deeds of Cuchullain wrought in his childhood.

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**Who acts:** Fergus · **What happens:** exile, narrate, meave · **To what, where:** high deeds

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg78491:11:12
# text = Fergus, the exiled King of Uladh, narrates to Meave the high deeds of Cuchullain wrought in his childhood.
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	exiled	exile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	narrates	narrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Meave	meave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exile** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **narrate** *speech: other* | present | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **meave** | infinitive | Fergus *not said here* | the high deeds of Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | 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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