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title: Faythleen replied; ‘One man alone I see; One man, yet mightier than… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Faythleen replied; ‘One man alone I see; One man, yet mightier than a realm in arms! Who acts: Faythleen, I. 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 82

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Faythleen replied; ‘One man alone I see; One man, yet mightier than a realm in arms!

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**Who acts:** Faythleen, I · **What happens:** reply, see · **To what, where:** One man

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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, I), 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:pg78491:11:84
# text = Faythleen replied; ‘One man alone I see; One man, yet mightier than a realm in arms!
1	Faythleen	Faythleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	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 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Faythleen | One man |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | present | I |  |  |  |  | One man *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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