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title: That tale recalling King Ailill laughed: his laughter roused the que… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That tale recalling King Ailill laughed: his laughter roused the queen: She woke in wrath: to assuage her Ailill spake; ‘Happy and blest that dame whose lord is sage! Who acts: tale, laughter, Ailill, dame. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

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That tale recalling King Ailill laughed: his laughter roused the queen: She woke in wrath: to assuage her Ailill spake; ‘Happy and blest that dame whose lord is sage!

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**Who acts:** tale, laughter, Ailill, dame · **What happens:** recall, laugh, rouse, wake, assuage, be · **To what, where:** King Ailill, queen, wrath, Ailill spake

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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 (tale, laughter, Ailill, dame), 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:pg78491:11:20
# text = That tale recalling King Ailill laughed: his laughter roused the queen: She woke in wrath: to assuage her Ailill spake; ‘Happy and blest that dame whose lord is sage!
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	recalling	recall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	roused	rouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	assuage	assuage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	blest	blest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	sage	sage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | gerund | that tale *not said here* | King Ailill |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ailill=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | that tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rouse** | past | tale's laughter | the queen |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
| 4 | **wake** | past | Ailill |  |  | wrath |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **assuage** | to-infinitive | Ailill *not said here* | Ailill's Ailill spake |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus speak=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | dame |  |  |  |  | sage *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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