--- title: Sternly he made reply: “Queen Macha had her day and ruled: far down… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Sternly he made reply: “Queen Macha had her day and ruled: far down Doubtless this hour she rules, or rules aloft: I rule in Eman and this Uladh realm: I will not knight a stripling!” Who acts: place, Queen. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:11:199 # text = Sternly he made reply: “Queen Macha had her day and ruled: far down Doubtless this hour she rules, or rules aloft: I rule in Eman and this Uladh realm: I will not knight a stripling!” 1 Sternly sternly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 made may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 reply reply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 Macha Macha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 16 down down ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Doubtless Doubtless PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 list _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ _ 25 aloft aloft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 rule rule VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Eman Eman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 33 Uladh Uladh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 realm realm NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 knight knight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 stripling stripling NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: express* | may | place | | | | | down Doubtless; sternly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Queen | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rule** *in a quote* | past | Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rule** *in a quote* | | Queen | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rule** *in a quote* | present | place | | | Eman and this Uladh realm | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **knight** *in a quote* | future | place | a stripling | | | | | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripling=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/196/) - next →: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/198/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)