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title: The queen, Sent forth her heralds, east, and west, and south, Summon… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen, Sent forth her heralds, east, and west, and south, Summoning her great allies. Who acts: queen. 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 54

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The queen, Sent forth her heralds, east, and west, and south, Summoning her great allies.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** send, summon · **To what, where:** heralds, great allies, queen

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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 (queen), 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:pg78491:11:56
# text = The queen, Sent forth her heralds, east, and west, and south, Summoning her great allies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heralds	herald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	east	east	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	west	west	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	south	south	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle | the queen *not said here* | Queen's heralds |  |  |  | east, forth, south, west *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herald=Theme |
| 2 | **summon** | gerund | the queen *not said here* | Queen's great allies |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Recipient |

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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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