--- title: Their lords decide that the king and queen are great and happy alike… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Their lords decide that the king and queen are great and happy alike in all things save one only, namely, that Ailill possesses the far-famed white Bull, Fionbannah. Who acts: lords, king, things, Ailill. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey D --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/5/) [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/) / 5 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 5 Their lords decide that the king and queen are great and happy alike in all things save one only, namely, that Ailill possesses the far-famed white Bull, Fionbannah. **Who acts:** lords, king, things, Ailill · **What happens:** decide, be, save, possess, fame · **To what, where:** one, famed white Bull · **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 (lords, king, things, Ailill), 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:pg78491:11:7 # text = Their lords decide that the king and queen are great and happy alike in all things save one only, namely, that Ailill possesses the far-famed white Bull, Fionbannah. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 14 in in SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 namely namely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 Ailill Ailill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 possesses possess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 27 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 famed fame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Bull Bull PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Fionbannah Fionbannah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | present | Their lords | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the king and queen | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the king and queen *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the king and queen *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **save** | present | all things | one | | | | namely *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 6 | **possess** | present | that Ailill | the famed white Bull | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bull=Theme | | 7 | **fame** | participle | | | | | | | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/6/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)