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title: I bring ill news: Uladh is mad; the Red Branch House is mad: We two… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 127

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I bring ill news: Uladh is mad; the Red Branch House is mad: We two are mad; and all the world are mad, Mad as thy mother!

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**Who acts:** I, Uladh, Red Branch House, We, world · **What happens:** bring, be · **To what, where:** ill news

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Uladh, Red Branch House, We), 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:pg78491:12:129
# text = I bring ill news: Uladh is mad; the Red Branch House is mad: We two are mad; and all the world are mad, Mad as thy mother!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Red	Red	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	appos	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | I | ill news |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Uladh |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Red Branch House |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | all world |  |  |  |  | mad *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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