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title: But Fergus, as she passed him spake: ‘not yet Know’st thou my Uladh,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Fergus, as she passed him spake: ‘not yet Know’st thou my Uladh, nor the Red Branch Knights; And one man is there mightier thrice than they.’ Who acts: Fergus, one man. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with i
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 94

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But Fergus, as she passed him spake: ‘not yet Know’st thou my Uladh, nor the Red Branch Knights; And one man is there mightier thrice than they.’

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**Who acts:** Fergus, one man · **What happens:** pass, be · **To what, where:** spake, army

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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 (Fergus, one man), 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:pg78491:11:96
# text = But Fergus, as she passed him spake: ‘not yet Know’st thou my Uladh, nor the Red Branch Knights; And one man is there mightier thrice than they.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	Know’st	Know'st	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	appos	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
21	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	parataxis	_	_
29	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Fergus | spake | army |  |  | Know’st and my Uladh *parataxis* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient speak=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | one man |  |  |  |  | than Knights *= knight*; mightier thrice *obl:unmarked*; there *property* | tree rules |

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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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