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title: With treble shrill Ailill replied; ‘What words are these, my queen? — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With treble shrill Ailill replied; ‘What words are these, my queen? Who acts: shrill Ailill. 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 28

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With treble shrill Ailill replied; ‘What words are these, my queen?

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**Who acts:** shrill Ailill · **What happens:** reply, be · **To what, where:** words, these

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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 (shrill Ailill), 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:pg78491:11:30
# text = With treble shrill Ailill replied; ‘What words are these, my queen?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	treble	treble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	What	what	DET	WP	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | shrill Ailill | what words and my queen |  |  |  | with treble | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | these |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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