--- title: Fergus rose: ‘Night wanes,’ he said, ‘and tasks await my hand:’ Pass… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Fergus rose: ‘Night wanes,’ he said, ‘and tasks await my hand:’ Passing the throne he whispered thus the queen, ‘The Hound of Uladh is your visitant Both day and night.’ Who acts: Fergus, marvel, tasks, Hound. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aub --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/236/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/) / 236 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 236 Fergus rose: ‘Night wanes,’ he said, ‘and tasks await my hand:’ Passing the throne he whispered thus the queen, ‘The Hound of Uladh is your visitant Both day and night.’ **Who acts:** Fergus, marvel, tasks, Hound · **What happens:** rise, say, await, pass, whisper, be · **To what, where:** Night wanes, hand, throne, queen, visitant · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, marvel, tasks, Hound), 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:pg78491:11:238 # text = Fergus rose: ‘Night wanes,’ he said, ‘and tasks await my hand:’ Passing the throne he whispered thus the queen, ‘The Hound of Uladh is your visitant Both day and night.’ 1 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Night night ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wanes wane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 tasks task NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 await await VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 thus thus ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Uladh Uladh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 visitant visitant NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 37 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | Fergus | Night wanes | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | marvel | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **await** | present | tasks | my hand | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pass** | gerund | tasks *not said here* | the throne | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory | | 5 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | marvel | the queen | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | | 6 | **is a** | present | the Hound of Uladh | your visitant | | | day | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules | 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 235](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/235/) - next →: [sentence 237](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/237/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)