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title: That eve, at banquet ranged The warriors questioned Fergus; ‘Who is… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That eve, at banquet ranged The warriors questioned Fergus; ‘Who is best Among the Uladh chiefs?’ Who acts: eve, warriors. 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 cla
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 124

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That eve, at banquet ranged The warriors questioned Fergus; ‘Who is best Among the Uladh chiefs?’

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**Who acts:** eve, warriors · **What happens:** range, question, be · **To what, where:** Fergus

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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 (eve, warriors), 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:pg78491:11:126
# text = That eve, at banquet ranged The warriors questioned Fergus; ‘Who is best Among the Uladh chiefs?’
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	ranged	range	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
16	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | past | that eve at banquet |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **question** *speech: other* | past | the warriors |  | Fergus |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fergus=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | among the Uladh chiefs; Who *nsubj*; good *property* | 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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