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title: He spake and bound The Geisa, and the edicts, and the vows Of that d… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He spake and bound The Geisa, and the edicts, and the vows Of that dread Red Branch Order on the boy, And gave him sword and lance. Who acts: land, vows. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 203

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He spake and bound The Geisa, and the edicts, and the vows Of that dread Red Branch Order on the boy, And gave him sword and lance.

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**Who acts:** land, vows · **What happens:** bind, dread, give, vow · **To what, where:** Geisa, Red Branch Order, sword, land, that

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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 (land, vows), 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:pg78491:11:205
# text = He spake and bound The Geisa, and the edicts, and the vows Of that dread Red Branch Order on the boy, And gave him sword and lance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Geisa	Geisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edicts	edict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nmod	_	_
17	dread	dread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	Red	Red	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Order	Order	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | past | land | the Geisa and the edicts |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geisa=Patient |
| 2 | **dread** | present | the vows of that | Red Branch Order |  |  |  | on the boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | past | land *not said here* | sword and lance | land |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme |
| 4 | **vow** |  |  | that |  |  |  |  | nom vow «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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