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title: Fergus spake; ‘One night To Meave’s pavilion swift of foot I sped; W… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fergus spake; ‘One night To Meave’s pavilion swift of foot I sped; War-tidings wait not. Who acts: I, War tidings. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 31

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Fergus spake; ‘One night To Meave’s pavilion swift of foot I sped; War-tidings wait not.

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**Who acts:** I, War tidings · **What happens:** speed, not wait · **To what, where:** foot, Fergus spake

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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, War tidings), 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:pg78491:12:33
# text = Fergus spake; ‘One night To Meave’s pavilion swift of foot I sped; War-tidings wait not.
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	To	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past | I | foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **wait** | present | War tidings | Fergus spake |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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