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title: But Daré’s sons at midnight, each to each, Whispered; ‘the king will… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Daré’s sons at midnight, each to each, Whispered; ‘the king will chase us from the realm! Who acts: sons, king. 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 48

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But Daré’s sons at midnight, each to each, Whispered; ‘the king will chase us from the realm!

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**Who acts:** sons, king · **What happens:** whisper, chase · **To what, where:** us, realm

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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 (sons, king), 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:pg78491:11:50
# text = But Daré’s sons at midnight, each to each, Whispered; ‘the king will chase us from the realm!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Daré	Daré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	appos	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | participle | Daré's sons at midnight |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chase** | future | the king | us |  | the realm |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from realm=Trajectory |

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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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