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title: Again at feast Ailill made question of the Red Branch Knights: Fergu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Again at feast Ailill made question of the Red Branch Knights: Fergus replied; ‘Cuchullain is their best: I taught him arms! Who acts: Ailill, Fergus, Cuchullain, I. 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 depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 182

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Again at feast Ailill made question of the Red Branch Knights: Fergus replied; ‘Cuchullain is their best: I taught him arms!

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**Who acts:** Ailill, Fergus, Cuchullain, I · **What happens:** make, reply, be, teach, question · **To what, where:** question, feast, arms, Cuchullain, Branch Knights

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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 (Ailill, Fergus, Cuchullain, I), 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:pg78491:11:184
# text = Again at feast Ailill made question of the Red Branch Knights: Fergus replied; ‘Cuchullain is their best: I taught him arms!
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Ailill | question of the Branch Knights |  | feast | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Product |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | Knights *= knight* *nmod:poss*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | I | arms | Cuchullain |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient arm=Topic |
| 5 | **question** |  |  | the Branch Knights |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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