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title: Fergus then, Despite Queen Meave, who plaited still her robe With an… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fergus then, Despite Queen Meave, who plaited still her robe With angry hectic hand, the tale began. Who acts: Fergus. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 225

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Fergus then, Despite Queen Meave, who plaited still her robe With angry hectic hand, the tale began.

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**Who acts:** Fergus · **What happens:** plait, begin · **To what, where:** robe

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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 (Fergus), 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:pg78491:11:227
# text = Fergus then, Despite Queen Meave, who plaited still her robe With angry hectic hand, the tale began.
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Despite	Despite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	plaited	plait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	With	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	hectic	hectic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plait** | past | Fergus | Fergus's robe |  |  |  | with angry hectic hand | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Fergus |  |  |  |  | the tale *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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