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title: There meets her Faythleen the Witch, who prophesies calamity, but pr… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There meets her Faythleen the Witch, who prophesies calamity, but promises that in aid of Meave she will breathe over the realm of Uladh a spirit of imbecility. Who acts: Faythleen, Conor. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 8

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There meets her Faythleen the Witch, who prophesies calamity, but promises that in aid of Meave she will breathe over the realm of Uladh a spirit of imbecility.

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**Who acts:** Faythleen, Conor · **What happens:** meet, prophesy, promise, breathe · **To what, where:** Conor, calamity, spirit, aid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Faythleen, Conor), 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:pg78491:11:10
# text = There meets her Faythleen the Witch, who prophesies calamity, but promises that in aid of Meave she will breathe over the realm of Uladh a spirit of imbecility.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	Faythleen	Faythleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	prophesies	prophesy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	imbecility	imbecility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present |  | Conor |  | there |  | Faythleen *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prophesy** | present | Faythleen | calamity |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calamity=Theme |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **breathe** | future | Conor | a spirit of imbecility |  | aid of Meave |  | over the realm of Uladh | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |

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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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